Wednesday, February 28, 2007

The shock of the new

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And another thing .... for I'm not done yet! I was looking over the posts I made "live" while in San Francisco, and realised t...
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Monday, February 26, 2007

Tremors and trembling

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I knew I'd want to say more about our US trip - things keep coming back to me. When we were staying in the St Francis Hotel (photo) I co...
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Sunday, February 25, 2007

An odorous chaplet?

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This photo was taken in my garden a couple of days ago - not the first rose of summer, but rather the last rose from last year's crop. P...
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Saturday, February 24, 2007

Binning the Bomb in Glasgow

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Slight change of tack today - I went on a demo, a protest march, a rally: whatever you call it, a goodly crowd assembled in George Square to...
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Friday, February 23, 2007

Roundup

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So that’s it, then. Another huge experience, one I’m enjoying in retrospect almost as much as I did at the time. Interestingly – for me at l...
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Thursday, February 22, 2007

Rubbernecking on the Rock

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The last day of our American odyssey is brilliantly sunny, if still Arctic. The snow still gleams in piles, contrasting with the Demerara su...
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007

There came both ice and snow ....

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A snowy morning in NY lacks the luminosity of the same weather in Scotland. Perhaps being on the 24th floor makes a difference – halfway int...
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007

New York, New York ...

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New York. Wow. Almost too iconic to take in; almost too familiar to believe. Three days spent feeling I’m in a movie, but aware because of t...
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Monday, February 19, 2007

Entertaining entraining - and detraining

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It’s time to start blogging again – I’m tired of unpacking and laundering and catching up with mail and trying to remember who I am and who ...
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Sunday, February 11, 2007

Jings

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What can I say? I'm just back from church - church, Jim, but not as we know it. Williamsburg Community Chapel, aiming to meet people whe...
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Saturday, February 10, 2007

Cardinals, Bishops and buzzards

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Another wonderfully sunny day in Williamsburg - temperatures hovering just above freezing under blue sky. We've been taking a look at Co...
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Friday, February 09, 2007

Onward and Eastward

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Blogging from Williamsburg, Virginia, I'm feeling a touch of the Evita syndrome again - another suitcase in another hall - as I look out...
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Tuesday, February 06, 2007

A quickie from SF

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Hasstily posting at 4 dollars a session, I have to report that San Francisco is utterly amazing, that I have been to the Cheesecake Factory ...
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Saturday, February 03, 2007

San Francisco hookup

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Well. I'm at it again - meeting cyber friends in meat-space! And as you'll see from the pic, it's the greatest fun. In this case...
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Thursday, February 01, 2007

Iconic locations

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A quick update before the personal tour manager arrives (Casey's found a new job!). Yesterday was wonderful, if unbelievable; a trawl th...
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Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Show me the way ....

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It's Wednesday, and it's Santa Cruz. Actually I think I'm in a "city" called Capitola, on the California coast. Free I...
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Monday, January 29, 2007

Southern reflections

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Just back from Mobile Bay - a brief stop in Birmingham before we head west to California. So many impressions that I know I must record befo...
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Thursday, January 25, 2007

Heading south ....

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Today we leave this house in Birmingham and travel to Fairhope on the Gulf coast. As there is no computer there, I shall be sile...
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Rural jaunt

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Yesterday had a glimpse of rural Alabama, courtesy of my hereto virtual friend Walter. (I don't think a 10 minute meeting several years ...
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Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Birmingham observed

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Spent a fascinating if chilly couple of hours inspecting the renovation of inner-city buildings in Birmingham this morning, in the company o...
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