Turing Test

We all got an excited email on Tuesday announcing that the Diocesan Offices are about to move. For years they've been crammed into a Georgian house on Quarry Street in Guildford. The time I went there with Debbie the ordinand for a scary meeting we were shown into a tiny box room for our discussion with the Powers-That-Be: we had to crouch to get in through the door. It wasn't ideal and moving must have been on the minds of the denizens of Diocesan House for quite some time.

The new offices are being rented from Surrey University. I imagine the Powers have debated long and thoroughly how wise a move this is, leasing a property rather than buying one. It may be intended as a temporary arrangement, though temporary arrangements have a tendency to become less than transient. Moving out of the offices at the Cathedral, currently occupied by the Education and Parish Development departments, rather than concentrating all the diocesan business there, also seems counterintuitive. But there you go.

The most important thing, however, is that the Diocese is moving to Alan Turing Road. This means that every time certain churches in the area want to send something to the offices they'll have to write the name of one of the UK's most prominent gay martyrs on the envelope. Of course that will only chafe as much as I hope it will if they know who he is.