Saturday, June 30, 2007

Back to earth with a bang

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I knew I was going to find it difficult to return to Dunoon and all that that implied - two-way roads, yelling yoof in the night, rain that ...
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Friday, June 29, 2007

Oransay

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What a wonderful place. We waded through the last of the receding tide to get here, and walked to the Priory through glorious sun and larkso...
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Thursday, June 28, 2007

Great Northern in the rain

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No picnic today - it keeps raining with a vigour we haven't seen since leaving home. So we ate here, one of the pleasant sitooteries in ...
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Taking the old road

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This pic shows the Standing Stones beside the old road which runs from behind the hotel over the hills to Colonsay House. We were aware of t...
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Picnic by the Loch

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As this lovely spot is blessed by a strong phone signal, I am able to post this even as I demolish the last crumbs of shortbread from the pi...
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Sea kelp and orchids.

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To the south west of the island today. This amazing beach is where we stopped to eat - sitting at the foot of the cliff with backs to the ro...
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Monday, June 25, 2007

Thin places

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This beach, at Balnahard Bay, was the goal of today's walk. We hiked miles over sandy tracks, through bog myrtle and honey-scented flowe...
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Sunny Colonsay.

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Verily, this is a magical island. A cloudless morning, a great hotel- and sufficient mobile coverage - if a tad patchy - to moblog. Brill!
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Saturday, June 23, 2007

Country roads ..

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Well that was quite a day. It began for me at 5am, so it has already gone on for too long. However, the point of it, the Cursillo team meeti...
Friday, June 22, 2007

A midsummer night's ....

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It is 9.45 pm. The sky is still bright, blue overhead but grey and rainy-looking over Gourock. Our garden is filled with the scent of Philad...
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Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Gie's a break

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Life is becoming somewhat hectic this week - I'm off to Edinburgh tomorrow, Perth on Saturday and Colonsay on Sunday. I tried to enter t...
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Missing links?

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How disgruntled I can still feel when a pupil lets me down. After all these years, you'd think I'd know to expect this, but when my ...
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Monday, June 18, 2007

Forthcoming attraction...

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I feel moved to enlarge on my last post, which, being moblogged, was of necessity terse. For I don't think there can be anyone else of o...
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Which car?

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Buying a new car in Argyll is unlike any other retail experience. Right now we're sitting on a bench on the shore of Loch Fyne waiting f...
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Saturday, June 16, 2007

Communicate or ....

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I've been thinking about communication in the Scottish Episcopal Church (again). This time it was brought on by the realisation at Synod...
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Friday, June 15, 2007

Purging dead blogs

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The sharp-eyed will notice I've at last got round to updating my blogroll. There are other blogs I read sporadically, but at least I...
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Thursday, June 14, 2007

Blogging characters

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My latest student blogger has been posting over at Ekki's English about his take on the characters in Macbeth . It interests me how dif...
Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Brilliant book

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Almost a first for me - a book in translation that I couldn't put down. Niccolo Ammaniti's I'm Not Scared has been so masterful...
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Monday, June 11, 2007

Bliss was it. .

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Not much of a photo, I suspect - it's too bright to see - but this is what happens when you don't have to work: a picnic on this lov...
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Saturday, June 09, 2007

Back in the Boondocks

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Home again. Like Ruth I feel as if I've been away for far longer than three days, and was amazed at how warm the air here in the west w...