Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Cleaning up the past

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I've been indulging in a spot of heavy cleaning. Not, you understand, your regular housework, that being the preserve of Mr B, but the ...
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Sunday, December 28, 2008

Silly Steps

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Well, that was silly. Yet another "creative" version of Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps . Not even the presence of the lovely R...
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Saturday, December 27, 2008

First sight ...

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First sight of the presents Originally uploaded by goforchris . As Boxing Day slides into darkness, I realise that the gloom I used...
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Of stables and camels and life-saving surgery

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Camel's eye view.. Originally uploaded by goforchris . I always associated churchy women with "doing the flowers" - and in ...
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008

New poem and procrastination

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I had intended blogging about the activities of the day, but it has suddenly become rather late for all but bed, so I shall content myself w...
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Monday, December 22, 2008

Alternative Christmas?

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I've been reading Kimberly's take on how ordination changes, among other things, the whole business of Christmas for the ordained. ...
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Sunday, December 21, 2008

Music, words and candlelight.

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Candles Originally uploaded by goforchris . In a small, damp, chilly church at the foot of the glen, pestered for a spell by the no...
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Friday, December 19, 2008

Of lethal decorations and other matters

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"Tis done. This photo is one for the archives, showing as it does our antique Pifco lights, still shining after 38 years. I note from ...
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Thursday, December 18, 2008

Randomly festive thoughts

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Still beset by various carolling earworms, it came to me that I should try to find out what Christmas carol would be the desert island choic...
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Earworms and emotion

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This is the season when all good choristers tend to go around singing snippets of carols – evidence of the earworms with which they are affl...
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Old-fashioned friendship

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More cards today. And of course a mountain of them when we arrived home the other night after our trip south. I find myself as always lookin...
Sunday, December 14, 2008

Hic bene dormitur

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Sleeping on Grandma. Again. Originally uploaded by goforchris . It's quite a thing, this grandmothering. Humbling, really. You thin...
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Saturday, December 13, 2008

Typecast?

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When I was small - three or threabouts - I was devoted to a pair of blue dungarees and to the idea of "mending things". My mother ...
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Tuesday, December 09, 2008

Try this

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Before I head off to The Smoke to see that my new grandson is treating his parents ok, I'd better leave my readers with a wee something ...
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Monday, December 08, 2008

Of Malthus, and others.

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What an obscenity it is that so many people should be dying of hunger in the Horn of Africa. How nonsensical that cholera should be rife in...
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Sunday, December 07, 2008

Blooming elsewhere

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I've been posting over at Love Blooms Bright today, on the advent blog begun last year to which a group of bloggers in the Episcopal ch...
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Wednesday, December 03, 2008

A poem for a baby

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There's a new poem over at frankenstina - and a picture of my lovely grandson. This is the poem I wrote while, all unknown to me, he wa...
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Fibs

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I've been diverted from onerous minute-writing (though made more accurate by our new Edirol recorder) by a new form of word-smithing: Th...
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Monday, December 01, 2008

Advent obsessions

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I've been thinking about The Advent Prose today. Actually, I've been obsessed with the images in it since yesterday, when it was th...
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Saturday, November 29, 2008

We are a grandmother, again

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All of 15 months ago I wrote that I was quoting the Blessed Margaret for the first and last time, but here we go again. We are, for the sec...
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