Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Thursday, December 24, 2015

The ghosts of Christmas Past

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It's a strange phenomenon, the power of Christmas Eve to resurrect memories so strongly and yet so randomly. As I listened to the firs...
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Saturday, December 12, 2015

Three snacks and out

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I found myself, in a procrastinating moment, leafing through a leaflet from the Co-op, a Christmas leaflet promising all manner of festive t...
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Saturday, December 29, 2012

Lights in the darkness

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..and more candles Originally uploaded by goforchris . All right - I'm late with a blog post on Christmas . Tough. I've no...
Monday, January 02, 2012

Glass baubles and messages

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Glass bauble Originally uploaded by goforchris . I was remarking with friends last night how traditional my style of Christmas tree i...
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Thursday, December 22, 2011

Meanwhile, in a parallel universe ...

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The kitchen is warm. No - it is actually unbearably hot. The erstwhile poet/musician, transformed for the nonce into Domestic Goddess, is ha...
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Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Traditional and effective

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The photo accompanying this post records one of these satisfying grandmother moments. I'd been holding Anna (4 weeks old) in the hope th...
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Sunday, November 21, 2010

Another fold

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This cloud - taken from tags in this blog, using Tagxedo , has nothing to do with what I'm thinking, other than that I should be doing s...
Saturday, January 02, 2010

What am I listening to?

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I don't tend to listen to any particular music more than once in any given time unless I'm learning it: in a house full of live musi...
Wednesday, December 30, 2009

A different kind of Christmas

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Assembly ... Originally uploaded by goforchris . A rather different Christmas, that was - but captured in one of its best moments by th...
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Sunday, December 13, 2009

A fold in time

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Really far too tired to blog this, but the moment will pass otherwise... Today's concert, Words & Music for Christmas, was an old fo...
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Of stables and camels and life-saving surgery

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Camel's eye view.. Originally uploaded by goforchris . I always associated churchy women with "doing the flowers" - and in ...
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Monday, December 22, 2008

Alternative Christmas?

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I've been reading Kimberly's take on how ordination changes, among other things, the whole business of Christmas for the ordained. ...
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Thursday, December 18, 2008

Randomly festive thoughts

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Still beset by various carolling earworms, it came to me that I should try to find out what Christmas carol would be the desert island choic...
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Old-fashioned friendship

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More cards today. And of course a mountain of them when we arrived home the other night after our trip south. I find myself as always lookin...
Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Angel!

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Angel Originally uploaded by goforchris . What a terrific atmosphere we had in church this Christmas morning! I personally love the Mid...
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Friday, December 29, 2006

Present joys

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I've been tidying (just a little) before I put the Domestic G. disguise away for another year. Having assembled a neat pile of presents,...
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Monday, December 25, 2006

Bird of dawning

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Every year around 10pm on Christmas Eve I think I won't survive the combination of cooking and church, and every year the delight of it ...
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Sunday, December 24, 2006

Descrooged!

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After my Scrooge-like grumblings about badly-behaved weans and pathetic parents, I have to redress the balance by reporting that in our chur...
Friday, December 22, 2006

Yule Tide maunderings

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Well well. Seems we poor bloggers have been banned by Argyll and Bute because we use Blogger. Apparently the reason given is "sex...
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