Diocesan Synod was chaired by Bishop Dorsey on 2nd. March, at Elphinstone Hall at Aberdeen University. Aside from some confusion over the revised Canon 65 concerning safeguarding, business went smoothly. Canon 35, the one we all turn to when we want to change anything around the church, is being modified again to take into account the church’s net zero goals, though it was suggested that perhaps an entirely new canon is needed to deal with all the environmental and energy matters currently before us. Bishop Dorsey’s charge to Synod was based on the gospel account of Jesus throwing the moneylenders out of the temple, and addressed the anger currently felt in our diocese, and the signs of hope he felt of reconciliation. There was no Synod dinner this year, but we had time for good fellowship over lunch, time to catch up with old friends and make new ones.