Wednesday, April 30, 2008

BIG deal?

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I should have known better. Some time last year, in an idle moment, I sent one of my lighter poems to a site which promised a prize - a cash...
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Ticked off

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Ticked off Originally uploaded by goforchris . This, gentle reader, is a tick bite. It is on my arm, just above the wrist. It itche...
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Sunday, April 27, 2008

Virtually everything?

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Now here's interesting! I just found this courtesy of Mark who leads the Anglican Community on Second Life , and have this sudden vis...
Friday, April 25, 2008

Great and small

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I just learned, thanks to my knowledgeable rellies and a timely link to the RSPB site that the large white bird I saw on the roadside near ...
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Announcing ...

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Finding myself missing ....well, travel, actually, on this bleakly misty day, I consoled myself by posting a new poem from my recent trip to...
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Monday, April 21, 2008

Ducking and dying

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Just been indulging myself with another Christopher Brookmyre, Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks . Set in and around my alma mater and ...
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Sunday, April 20, 2008

Brain training: a new approach?

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How often do we listen to a talk, a lesson - a sermon, even - and let it wash over us? Perhaps we begin attentively enough, but drift down a...
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Saturday, April 19, 2008

Recurring nightmare?

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There's been a wee exchange - not really a wonderful one, but there you are - on Kimberly's blog today, about coping with housekeep...
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Thursday, April 17, 2008

At the violet hour?

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APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. Winter k...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Cut down to size

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I have a hunch that if there had been hydrangeas around in the time of Christ, there might have been a parable woven around the pruning of s...
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Pricey pee?

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Spotted in Glasgow's Central Station, this wonderful notice conjured up a multitude of possible answers and scenarios. Primarily, I supp...
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Monday, April 14, 2008

Helium or hot air?

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Back again. No blogging since Thursday as I went into Martha mode, from which I have returned, exhausted. However, the photo here shows why ...
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Thursday, April 10, 2008

Pepys lives!

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Assiduous readers of this blog will know that I lost my personal journal the other month by leaving it on a BA plane. (They will also know t...
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Twittering away

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I love this. I got the link from Neil , who sent me here . It shows all the stuff I tweet about - and if you don't know about Twitter m...
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Sunday, April 06, 2008

New, improved ....

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A spin-off from my judging of the school talent contest t'other night was a visit to the classroom of one of my erstwhile colleagues in ...
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Friday, April 04, 2008

Nothing to crow about

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Spotted in yesterday's Guardian, and still to be found here , in a piece about a memorial service for Sir Edmund Hillary, a sad but fai...
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Thursday, April 03, 2008

Judgement Day

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Apologies for a rather feeble photo (didn't have my Leica) to illustrate this evening's activity: I was part of the team of judges f...
Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Freedom!

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Oh well, all right. No blue face, and no hair extensions either. But I do feel a sense of freedom right now, having discarded my only privat...
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Sunday, March 30, 2008

Fussy macs?

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Another interesting wee glitch involving Mac apps. My pal Di and I write church reports for the local paper. Because we try to make them di...
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Saturday, March 29, 2008

Riding high

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Rather like this photo I took today from a helicopter over St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh - the confusing symmetry of the crescents and ...
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