Saturday, March 31, 2007

Off again

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As at this time last year , I'm about to abandon the blogosphere for a bit and return to the less virtual (but I hope virtuous) occupati...
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Thursday, March 29, 2007

Savage cuts

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I don't know. Savaged by a cat and derided by her and her friends I take refuge in the comfort of food, like many a poor soul before me....
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Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Handy reminders

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This is the rather splendid crest of Clan Mackintosh, into which, give or take a few spelling changes, I married more years ago than I care...
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Be near me

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This photo, one of a series I took in Tighnabruaich today, has nothing to do with tonight's blog post - I just like it. But I thought I...
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Monday, March 26, 2007

The Passion in Oban

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Driving home from Oban yesterday, as the dusk fell after a wonderful sunset (pictured over Oban bay), we talked about Bach's Passion acc...
Saturday, March 24, 2007

Pheasantries

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At the end of a perfect spring day, with nary a cloud in the sky, I am left pondering the risky life of the pheasant. We were walking along ...
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Friday, March 23, 2007

Joys of Spring

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Not one of my best efforts, this photo, but full of Spring nonetheless, in the ?person? of a scarpering bee, which until I approached with m...
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Thursday, March 22, 2007

Guid gear .....?

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I sometimes wonder, as a member of a very small congregation with a picturesque but chilly building in which to worship, what it must be l...
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Lay Learning - and bothering

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I spent today at the General Synod Offices in Edinburgh, at a meeting of the Lay Learning Group. The composition of this small committee var...
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Sunday, March 18, 2007

Edgar remembered

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Some time while we were away, the inscription that marks our friend Edgar’s grave was added to his wife’s headstone. It is, I suppose, fitti...
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Saturday, March 17, 2007

Keeping mum

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After all these remarks about old boots, I thought I'd show one of the perks of old bootdom (old boothood?) with a pic of these rather g...
Friday, March 16, 2007

Boot camp

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I made an alarming discovery today. I think there is only one make of walking boot in the western world which fits me. Living in the boondoc...
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Food for thought?

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Rather self-indulgently, I want to share the vision of the trout we ate tonight. No, I don't fish - but we have a great fish van which c...
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Borg and Byrd, inter alia

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Yesterday was wonderfully full, beginning with a swim at 7.30am and ending - well, the activity ended - on this deserted ferry at 7.40pm. In...
Monday, March 12, 2007

Guest Blog

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I'm having a first today: a guest blog entry from my friend Hugh on the subject of the new marriage liturgy for the Scottish Episcopal C...
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Friday, March 09, 2007

Haute cuisine?

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Overheard this afternoon in a local shop: "Two cold pies and a quarter of butternuts, please." The mind boggles at the thought of ...
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Succinctly put

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I have to thank blogger Mad Priest for publishing this letter from John Spong on the subject of the current strains in the Anglican Commun...
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Thursday, March 08, 2007

Synod season again

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I've been on my travels again. Two days, one night in Oban for the Argyll Diocesan Synod (ok - I know: The Isles as well - it's jus...
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Sunday, March 04, 2007

On further reflection...

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After yesterday's post, which was written in haste after the long drive home and before I'd eaten, I felt I ought to enlarge slightl...
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Saturday, March 03, 2007

Quietly enthusiastic?

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Well, we found BarCamp, and we found Ewan and managed to snatch a few minutes of face-to-face conversation, although, as Ewan remarked, he w...
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