Sunday, December 31, 2006

Farewell, Domestic Goddess, farewell 2006

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It's dark again. A dark, blowy Hogmanay with further gales forecast. Before I return to the role of Domestic Goddess for one more time -...
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Televised execution

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Just been listening to Broadcasting House on Radio 4. They're discussing the televised execution of Saddam, which yes, I saw yesterday....
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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Thursday, December 28, 2006

And all was for an Apple .......

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I sent a letter to Apple today - the final act, I hope, in my latest internet saga. It accompanied the Airport which arrived yesterday to ...
Tuesday, December 26, 2006

A fiery Christmas

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Having recovered from yesterday, I feel moved to share with anyone still sad enough to boot up their bloglines on Boxing Day a glimpse of th...
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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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Thursday, December 21, 2006

Geeks and Goddesses

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The Domestic Goddess decided that today merited a premature tasting of the cake iced yesterday, in celebration of the visit of a real comput...
Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Trials of a Domestic Goddess (1)

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Slipping briefly (I hope) into DG role, I wish to share, gentle readers, the trials of icing the Christmas Cake in this, the Year of Our Lor...
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Monday, December 18, 2006

A sour note

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I promised (threatened?) to post about that child at the carol concert the other night. I owe it to myself, let along anyone else, to get on...
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Sunday, December 17, 2006

Primus on Civil Partnerships.

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I was intending to discuss the child cryptically mentioned two posts ago, but have put that off to say hurrah! for Bishop Idris Jones, Primu...
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Saturday, December 16, 2006

Purple Advent .....

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This photo of the Advent Wreath in Holy Trinity Church, Dunoon, in the diocese of Argyll and The Isles, is specially featured for the instru...

Clydeside Christmas?

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A late start this morning after a late night - going to concerts in Glasgow tends to mean the midnight ferry and subsequent reviving with cu...
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Thursday, December 14, 2006

From the ridiculous to the sublime..

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I have a confession to make. I have, in the midst of trying to be up to speed with Christmas cards and puddings (damn - I meant to do someth...
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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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Friday, December 08, 2006

Things that you can't buy ...

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I may chuck something at the telly next time I see this ad - I pictured it in French as being less irritating for today, when I realised tha...
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Thursday, December 07, 2006

Bonding with the new Bond

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I've just enjoyed one of these days you retire for: morning coffee in Fazzi's in Glasgow, a visit to the big cinema (it keeps changi...
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Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Achievers, huh?

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Just came across this site, where I find one of my offspring recorded as having achieved something. (Where is the other one, I find myself ...
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