I have time for a report on yesterday.
The Eames (now called the Windsor) Report was issued. As I predicted, the bishops who voted for or consecrated +Gene Robinson are to be ostracised (voluntarily). The Anglican Communion is to become a more rigid organisation internationally, with an “Anglican Covenant” to “bind us together” that basically keeps individual countries from going their own way and dooms the institution to glacial movement along with the slowest and most conservative provinces.
I suspect that there will be lots of studying but that nothing will be done concrete about it. The +Genie is out of the bottle^Wcloset, and no one can put him back. However, this is not cause for inaction. The conservatives are furious that the Episcopal Church wasn’t immediately thrown out of the Anglican Communion, and will probably try to do something in the next year or so. We need to be ever vigilant.
BK, HWMBO, and I went to see the Esplanade (the new concert hall/arts centre) downtown. It looks like two half durians (qv) lying on the shore. Had a nice Thai lunch, then on to the Duck Tour. You may have one in your own city (I do). They are amphibious troop carriers, that can operate as trucks or as boats. They were surplus after Vietnam, and were bought by various private individuals and now are osten used for these tours. We went through the harbour (no splashing, thankfully) and saw the Esplanade from the bay, as well as the famous Merlion, the symbol of Singapore.
The land tour was an anticlimax as the overhanging roof of the duck was such as to block out any possibility of taking a reasonable picture. We discovered that locals get a 40% discount and those who use their Citicards to book get 10% off. Still, BK thought it was worth about SG$10 (around GBP3.30, or US$4.44). I liked it, though.
I will post pictures on my website when I get back to London.