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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Glorious week on the Northumbrian coast. Cannae beat it here when the sun shines! 🏰☀️🌊❤️

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

New ministry, new flat, same bottle of malt (Springbank) as last year, I think! Merry Christmas! 🥃🎄⭐️ #ClergyMaltClub

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

What did you do in your holidays? I’m doing Thought for the Day! Catch me live on BBC Radio Scotland at about 07.23, or catch up on Good Morning Scotland on BBC Sounds. #GMS

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

250% uplift in communicant numbers today compared to a ‘normal’ Sunday at St Anne’s Dunbar! Plus a baptism and the blessing of a civil partnership. I think we can say ‘He is risen!’. Oh, and a liturgical lace change, just in time for the festivities! ⚓️

Patent black doc marten boots with white laces, standing on grass.

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Holy Saturday, and I literally found Jesus on Dunbar High St! I thought he was supposed to be busy harrowing hell?!

Tiny Jesus held by Pausingplace, with pavement in the background.

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

What with all the toxic stuff going on in the world, I’ll take a rainbow whenever I can find one.

A street leading to the sea, with a yellow house on one side, a white one on the other, and beyond them, in the ocean and overhead, a rainbow.

Double half rainbow over a golf course and a shoreline.

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Nine years of Oswald Doglet! 🐶❤️🎂

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Farewell session with the youth at Harbour Lights Xtra this afternoon. These Friday sessions have been some of the most fun times in my ministry in Dunbar. As you can see, sometimes you can have your cake AND eat it. But I lost my pool shark crown - you can tell by T’s smile!! ⚓️ #anglican

Pausingplace (trying to eat a whole cake) and some smiley teenagers.

Cake reading ‘thanks Diana. God bless and farewell’.

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Made it onto the big screen st the #NationalOutdoorExpo at the NEC today, in the Great Norse Run 2024 film screening! 🤩🏃‍♀️ #iceland #trailrun

Big screen at the NEC showing Pausingplace running on a path. Audience watching the screen.

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

My turn on Thought for the Day on BBC Radio Scotland today… Setting my face against the gloomy news and focusing on the ☀️ 😎 Listen back here (from 1h22m20) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... 📻 📡 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Trail #run with #Spaniels. Joy! 🏃‍♀️🐶🐶☀️🙌🏻

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Last year’s palms, fire and Oil of Chrism. Death and life all held together in the hope through the cross. #AshWednesday #Lent

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Big news in Scotland… 🙄🐦 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Clip from BBC news website with headline ‘Gull saved from Paisley bin seen on Moroccan beach’.

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Just two rectory #spaniels playing the bitey face game. As you do on a Wednesday afternoon. 🐶🐶❤️ …You’re welcome! #dogspam #spanielsofbluesky

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

My turn on Thought for the Day on Radio Scotland this am, with a thought about prisons and restorative justice. Catch up on BBC Sounds at about 1h20mins in. #bbcgms

Pausingplace in the BBC Radio Scotland studio

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

The building of Notre Dame continues! It’s now 1225, and nave flyers are fitted with channels that drain rainwater from the roof through the gargoyles. #Lego #Cathedral #NotreDame

Rainwater channels are fitted to the nave flyers.

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

You can tell he had a great day when he settles in like this! #spaniel #dayoff #snooze

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

The Knitted Bible is at St Anne’s Church, Dunbar this weekend. It’s all quite bonkers!

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Edinburgh Diocesan Synod today… and +John’s last, so Dean Frances is introducing how we will go about discerning and electing a new Bishop after +J retires in August.

Photo of diocesan synod with the Dean at the lectern and a slide saying ‘calling a bishop’ and showing a shepherd’s crook

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

My running has been a bit hit and miss lately… work has needed a lot of my attention. So it was good to get out this afternoon, even on a grey day.

Photo of my Garmin on my wrist, showing a half marathon distance run. Spaniels I’m the background.

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

the #Dunbar Debt Advice Service team meeting today. We welcomed our new Service Coordinator Pam Shields, who takes the reins from Christine Bailey. The service has now managed over £900k of debt for clients and saved clients over £180k. If you’re in #debt, get in touch. We can help. #EastLothian

Team discussion about service development.

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

It was announced today that I’ve been called to a new ministry. I’ll be leaving St. Anne's Dunbar to become Priest in Charge of St Margaret’s Easter Road and Mustard Seed Edinburgh. It’s a HappySad day… please pray for us all!

Screen grab of email announcement of a new priest in charge for St Margaret’s and Mustard Seed Edinburgh, with 2 photos of Pauingplace at the bottom

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

This is Ebba of Coldingham. 🐶❤️

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Basking in the Shepherd’s delight this evening.

A gorgeous red sky above the Tyne estuary, with a spaniel in the foreground

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

St Anne’s Church, #Dunbar is hosting the #Lothians Speak Their Name suicide memorial #quilt, a beautiful work of #art made by loved ones of people lost to #suicide. You can visit daily from 10-4, & this Sat from 2-4 there’s an informal gathering where you can meet one of the makers. #itsgoodtotalk

The Lothians Speak Their Name quilt in St Anne’s Church, Dunbar

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

It was a day in Perthshire today, teaching at vicar school. The fees from Kinnoull Hill are always worth the climb!

pausingplace with ordinands at the top of Kinnoull hill

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Can’t go to bed… glued to dot-watching as Lucy Gossage approaches the end of an incredible effort! @spinerace.bsky.social

Map showing Lucy Gossage approaching Kirk Yetholm.

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Lovely evening for a run. Work is very busy at present, but I always feel better with a few miles on my legs… rather than just catching moments of @spinerace.bsky.social inspiration from my desk! 🏃‍♀️ Hope the folks making their way over the Cheviots tonight have as much moonlight as this! 🌙

Moonlit sky over calm sea, with Dunbar Harbour entrance in the distance

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Plentiful sea ice at the high tide line on today’s run!

A line of snow-like sea ice at the high tide line on a sandy beach. And a spaniel standing on it.

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Plugged tomorrow’s gospel (John 3:15-17, 21-22) into an AI image generator, and, well, that’s definitely a fork, but I’m not sure it qualifies as a winnowing fork! 🤣

John the Baptist standing in the Jordan holding a large fork

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Sleeping #spaniels. Last day, for a while, of unadulterated laziness.

Two sleeping spaniels draped across my lap.

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Nice wee run from Bamburgh to Ellingham. Loads of black ice on the side roads.

Bamburgh castle, a sandy pack, Pausingplace and a black highland cow

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

The first rose window is in. The transept nears completion... in the original the transept is complete by 1208, with large, original rose windows on all facades. #Lego #Epiphany #Cathedral #NotreDame ⚓️

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

1200-1225: the nave takes shape. As in all churches, every feature serves a purpose: theological, decorative and practical. #Lego #Epiphany #Cathedral #NotreDame ⚓️

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

1182: The choir is isolated from the building site by a provisional wall, while construction continues from E-W in the transept & nave. #Lego #Epiphany #Cathedral #NotreDame ⚓️

Looking from the south at a side door into the nave

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Notre-Dame is the first to fully integrate flying buttresses, a hallmark of Gothic architecture. #Lego #Epiphany #Cathedral #NotreDame ⚓️

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Fourteen years into the build, it’s 1177 and the choir and chevet are nearly complete. The roof and wooden framework are constructed before the vaults to offer protection from wear and tear. #Lego #Epiphany #Cathedral #NotreDame ⚓️

Looking east at a cross-section of the chevet and choir.

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I was planning a long run for today, but snow and gales aren’t helping! Instead: home made pasta for lunch - first use of a very generous Christmas present. 🍝

Pasta being extruded, and a bowl of freshly cooked spaghetti.

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Post Sunday lunch, there’s only one way to be a #spaniel.

Sleeping spaniel with log burning stove in the background.

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Snowy trails this morning! #ukrunchat #uksnow #canicross 🏃‍♀️❄️🐶🐶

Dogs being canicrossed along a snowy field edge

Snowy road with footprints down the middle and a tree in the distance.

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again now… still #Christmas! #coffee #uksnow #cake #wensleydale

Coffee, christmas cake and Wensleydale on a windowsill with a snowy garden behind.

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Seven years into the build… 1170, and the first two stories of the choir are nearly complete. #Lego #Christmas #Cathedral #NotreDame ⚓️

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Diana Hall @pausingplace.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

An elegant portal (renovated around 1270) offers access to the choir. It takes its name from the colour of its door panes: The Porte Rouge. #Lego #Christmas #Cathedral #NotreDame ⚓️

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