Synod 2008

This week the Diocesan Synod meets. Synod is basically a committee, and is the main decision making body. It includes the Bishop - standing at the lectern in his purple cassock - the clergy, and representatives of all the parishes. We meet for three days, every two years, and the decisions made this week become 'the policy of the diocese'.

I'll probably write more about Synod when it's all over, but for now here are a couple of photographs. Meetings and conference centres look much the same, wherever in the world they are. All that changes are the faces!


And yes, those chairs are as uncomfortable as they look!