Showing posts with label carols. Show all posts
Showing posts with label carols. 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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Tuesday, December 04, 2012

Advent: waiting in the moment

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Advent again. And every year, a little more suddenly than the preceding year, the same ritual tasks - that moment when you realise that it...
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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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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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Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Earworms and emotion

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This is the season when all good choristers tend to go around singing snippets of carols – evidence of the earworms with which they are affl...
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Monday, December 24, 2007

Some gig!

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Second half Originally uploaded by goforchris . We've been off gadding, Mr B and I - to London, just before Christmas. Normally we wo...
Sunday, December 02, 2007

Advent

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Flashless Originally uploaded by goforchris . I rather like this picture, taken as the male voices of the ad hoc choir for Cumbrae'...
Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Christmas medley, anyone?

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Just back from a visit to Edinburgh - a heady mix of a stay with dear friends, a meeting of the Lay Learning committee of the SEC and a visi...
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Sunday, December 10, 2006

Celebrating Advent

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Today was the Second Sunday in Advent. It rained, relentlessly. The borders in our garden were flooded and we had to wade through a massive...
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Monday, December 04, 2006

Ben Gunn without the cheese

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Well, that was quite a weekend! This photo of The Cathedral of The Isles, taken during Friday's lull in the frightful weather, gives no ...
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