Showing posts with label memories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label memories. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 04, 2017

Memories of a Hillhead infant

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It was this picture that started it. I've been rummaging among my old teaching materials and came upon a small buff book, with cartr...
Thursday, February 23, 2017

Rummaging in the cyber past

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I retired over 11 years ago. After all these years of teaching English I found I was missing the discipline of writing - for when I set ...
Friday, August 12, 2016

Hoolies I have known ...

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This startling photo was taken by Karen Brodie last Saturday as the participants in the Festal Evensong that had just celebrated 140 years...
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Monday, February 01, 2016

Of urban open spaces and a post-war childhood

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I was reading the other day about a dispute over an area of land in the West of Glasgow which is currently used as a (relatively) wild place...
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Saturday, January 02, 2016

Sere or sage?

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No, it's not a typo. In fact, I'm rather pleased with the title of this post, which came to me with the delightful inconsequence t...
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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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Monday, February 23, 2015

Another birthday, more memories ...

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Another week, another rush of birthday memories. My second son was born on a bleak February day 37 years ago, exactly 4 years and one week a...
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Monday, February 16, 2015

I remember it well ...

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 I've been thinking about birthdays today - not least because it is the birthday of my firstborn. Now he's a very adult person and...
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Thursday, December 18, 2014

Long ago, in a universe far away ...

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I have been thinking I ought to write to the College of Bishops about that pronouncement that is now all over yesterday's Herald , quit...
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Friday, September 26, 2014

Radio 4 discusses Maths - a poem of bewilderment

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Radio 4 discusses Maths There’s a magic number called e , that has the  power to solve the world’s problems, to be practical in ...
Thursday, September 18, 2014

I voted YES because ...

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By the time I have finished writing this post, the polls will have closed. In fact, I shall shortly stop writing so that I can watch th...
Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Exam stress? What exam stress?

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I have a feeling that Scottish school pupils are sitting their English SQA exams today. If not, it was yesterday - we retired teachers bec...
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Friday, December 20, 2013

Mamma Mia, or what happens when you run out of tenors ...

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You have to laugh. All these years of singing - it's a good 50 years since I last sang in the Hillhead High School madrigal group, at ...
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Thursday, November 21, 2013

Do you remember...?

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Well of course I remember. I was eighteen, for God’s sake. Impressionable, emotional, in love with too many people to enumerate - includin...
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Friday, October 04, 2013

The men in the radio

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We were listening to music on the radio the other night - hardly surprising; we do this every night in life - and for some reason discover...
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Sunday, June 23, 2013

Elephants, Proms, and the American Mad Mouse

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So the Kelvin Hall is to close. Gosh. It's taken me a while to catch up on this news, and it would seem that the arena was used for a ...
Thursday, May 09, 2013

Pervixi ... in memoriam ABF

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ABF and Mr B, 2012 I don't know what prompted me to take the above photo, but today I'm glad that I halted, called to the other...
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

De mortuis

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What does someone of mature years who tries to live under/up to a belief-system that encourages compassion say about the passing of Margaret...
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Thursday, February 14, 2013

Just war memories in Lent

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I went to the first meeting of the Lent Course today and found myself involved - or perhaps trying not to get too involved, or trying not to...
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Saturday, May 05, 2012

Hugh Lyons, RIP

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Hugh on the bonfire Originally uploaded by goforchris . Hugh Lyons was an adventurer. I was aware of him around Holy Trinity Church fo...
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