Staff and The Shins

Our staff team at church, when I started my current job in September 2002, consisted of a caretaker, two youth workers, three pastoral assistants, a curate, a vicar, a secretary, an honorary admin assistant and me. Eleven people. Now there are four of us.

At yesteday's meeting I suggested that it was like the point in an Agatha Christie novel where all those left alive are gathered in a room wondering who will be next and who the culprit is. I'm watching my back.

Saw The Shins last night at Birmingham Academy 2. Fantastically talented bunch of guys - perhaps the most lyrically complex band I follow.

'one wound up punch of intuition
lays flat my whole take on us
you're the girl on the wing of a barnstormer
the tidal rabbit who came of age before her time'

Answers to usual e-mail please.