Monday, April 30, 2007

Teaching...still.

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I was once again thinking of retiring properly - of not teaching anyone for a bit, now that Higher English is almost upon us - when out of t...

Everybody out?

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Well, who'da thunkit? Seems (according to recent polls) that the Nats might actually pull it off this Thursday and achieve a majority in...
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Saturday, April 28, 2007

Overwhelming question

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As a result of an interesting conversation with Neil yesterday, I've been thinking - again - about faith. We were discussing Richard Da...
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Friday, April 27, 2007

A day in Paradise

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Last view of upper glen Originally uploaded by goforchris . Yesterday, the weather doing what it had said on the tin, I paid a visit to...
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Women's work?

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Yesterday Kimberly sent me this wonderful photo as a possible image of women's ministry. And yesterday I read this: "The risen Chr...
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Monday, April 23, 2007

Joined up people

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Wow. My beloved PowerBook had a brain transplant this afternoon and suddenly the pages are flashing up – great. It’s the only functioning br...
Saturday, April 21, 2007

Two sides of the coin

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On a dreich West Coast morning, when the East Bay has all but vanished in a haze of rain, I'm preparing to go to Perthshire, where the r...
Wednesday, April 18, 2007

The cruellest month

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My title today comes with the photo, taken on a hillside above the mouth of Glen Massan: the first violets of the season. Once more my phone...
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Monday, April 16, 2007

AFAG

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I've just finished reading this wonderfully laddish book, and despite being a bit long in the tooth for laddishness, to say nothing of a...
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Saturday, April 14, 2007

Frogs and sheep

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Summer begins on the banks Originally uploaded by Edublogger . A jolly outing to Leith today felt like a visit to a foreign land. Partly ...
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Friday, April 13, 2007

All we like sheep.....

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When the weather turns quite as gorgeous as today’s has been, it’s less tempting to sit at a computer. But I know that many of you lucky peo...
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Thursday, April 12, 2007

All fun and games ...

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Cynddyllan? Originally uploaded by goforchris . The title of this post might alert the sharp-eyed to the novel I've been reading (m...
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Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Deathless prose?

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I've just had one of my pupils in, anxious about how to write a critical essay on a piece of journalism the class had studied. She'd...
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Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Of Dogs (with a nod to Bacon)

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A very large dog Originally uploaded by goforchris . I’ve been thinking about … dogs. We live in a very odd society. Over the last few ...
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Monday, April 09, 2007

Reasons for (non)attendance.

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Trouble with voluntary organisations is that you can't coerce folk into doing things. You can't make them do homework, appear on tim...
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Sunday, April 08, 2007

He is risen .....

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Easter garden Originally uploaded by goforchris . On this Easter morning, it seems strange to be blogging instead of worshipping - a matt...
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Friday, April 06, 2007

In the midst of life...

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Snuffed Originally uploaded by goforchris . Yesterday I referred to the feeling of headlong movement through Holy Week, and wondered at t...
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Thursday, April 05, 2007

Tallis and trembling.

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Candles and stained glass Originally uploaded by goforchris . Home again on a sunlit Maundy Thursday morning, I have time to reflect brie...
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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