Thursday, October 09, 2008

Reflections

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Well, that was fun! And the view above is one of a few I stopped to take on my drive north yesterday, looking down from the first high point...
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Wednesday, October 08, 2008

Distance learning

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Heading off later today to do something rather like my old job: encouraging people to think about their competence as communicators. However...
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Monday, October 06, 2008

Paddling up the Thames

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Just back from London, I crossed the Firth this evening in the Aly Cat , bouncing about in a grey swell as the rain battered the windows. Fa...
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008

King's Place

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This is the interior of London's newest venue. King's Place opened today with the first of a week of concerts, and the Bletherses ...
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Saturday, September 27, 2008

Authoritative comma-splicer

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I'm delighted by the current series of "How to Write" booklets in the guardian . Indeed, as I looked at two of the titles - t...
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Friday, September 26, 2008

Approaching the throne

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T'other day I asked a friend and former colleague, an experienced, well-respected teacher in her late fifties, how the new headie was d...
Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Mindblown

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Just home from the Scottish Learning Festival in the SECC . How conventional that sounds - how truly ordinary CPD. But it wasn't ordina...
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All this and heaven too

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This photo, taken before breakfast this morning, seems a suitably magical one to represent a day stolen from normal life. By some wonderful ...
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Sunday, September 21, 2008

Marriage made in Macs?

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'Tis done. I am not quite a bride - it's been a while - but if you look a the pic you'll see a sort of marriage going on, as my ...
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Saturday, September 20, 2008

The shock of the new

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A second trip in one week to the Apple Store in Glasgow saw me and Mr B staggering to our car with my shiny new iMac in its box after its me...
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Friday, September 19, 2008

Sistine crush

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Sistine Chapel ceiling Originally uploaded by goforchris . Although I was primarily interested in the remains of Ancient Rome, we took ...
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Thursday, September 18, 2008

Responding to theology

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Every month or so, our Lay Training group meets to learn, to share and to grow. In between times, we do our homework. This time round, we we...
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Monday, September 15, 2008

Whose past is it anyway?

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Augustus Caesar Originally uploaded by goforchris . Back in lugubrious Scotland, suffering a drop of 20 degrees Celsius from the heat of ...
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Friday, September 12, 2008

Obsessed

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The more time I spend here, the more aware I become of the Rome of 2,000 years ago. A solitary visit to Trajan's forum last evening, to...
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Candles in Trastevere

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Another day, another trip across the Tiber, another church - but no Bellini, a merciful lack of Baroque excess. This was a moment for silenc...
Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Petered out

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Today, we learned from CNN, it was to be hot - 31ºC hot - and sunny. It was. And we were rubbernecking big style at the Vatican. I shall ref...
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Monday, September 08, 2008

Deja vu?

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There are moments when I catch myself thinking that Rome reminds me of somewhere. It is disturbing how like Las Vegas some of the more bomba...
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Sunday, September 07, 2008

In foro Romano

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Well not quite, not yet. But this is the view from the rooftop bar of the Forum Hotel, where we've just had lunch. All a bit surreal, t...
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Friday, September 05, 2008

Migrating Macs

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No, not the laptop this time. Thanks to Ewan , I had a look at this site , and found out that the greatest number of people with the surname...
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Thursday, September 04, 2008

Perilous poetry?

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A piece in today's Guardian caught my eye because it was about teaching English. In fact, it was about the perceived possible effects o...