A Superfluity of Supply

A simple enough post: a book. It's the new register book in which we are encouraged to record marriage services that take place in the church, now we are not legally registering marriages but following the new, slightly involved process of downloading a 'Marriage Document', filling it out and then posting it off to the Registry once the service is completed. Note that in recent years the Registry had been issuing much, much thinner register books with spaces for, I think, twenty weddings so they stood some chance of seeing them again within the lifetimes of the peoples whose names were recorded there. The new book is a handsome volume and our sacristan went to collect it from the Cathedral bookshop a couple of days ago and it will take a century to fill it. I suppose that's an expression of confidence.