Thursday, April 30, 2009

Not waving but drowning

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Regular visitors to this blog must be wondering if I've gone off. You may very well be correct in that supposition, but the truth is tha...
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Monday, April 27, 2009

Mission accomplished

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We survived. Don't be fooled by the excellent, jolly cake, supplied by Black's of Dunoon - all the food was of the highest quality ...
Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Cursillo weekend

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The car is packed. There is room for only two people, and the back seats are folded away. The curious might assume we were going on a campin...
Monday, April 20, 2009

Calling all ostriches

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Sometimes I'm struck forcibly by the choice we make in deciding whether or not to watch/read/listen to the news. Today I read in some de...
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Saturday, April 18, 2009

Nectar in a tin

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I'm indebted to Neil for reminding me of the drink that was the mainstay of my childhood. Creamola Foam must have been a cheap alterna...
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Talking with the gardener

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Is he real? and can I trust the joy which sears across my soul with such delicious pain? The light is white, a curtain sparkling so that I c...
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Friday, April 10, 2009

Good Friday reflection

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PASSION Does it feel real? Crouching in the evening chill while leaves overhead silver in the breeze I struggle for wakefulness even in this...
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Gethsemane

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Altar of repose Originally uploaded by goforchris . Midnight. The church is quiet, dark. The sacrament is gone from the altar of re...
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Wednesday, April 08, 2009

Not rolling stones then

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It is the Wednesday of Holy Week. The day before Maundy Thursday, when for the hours before midnight the sacrament will rest on an altar dec...
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Tuesday, April 07, 2009

Out of the deep?

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A quick post to show I'm still alive, as I set off in the rain for Cumbrae and Choral Evensong, for which we haven't yet begun to pr...
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Wednesday, April 01, 2009

To see the object

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There's a poem over on frankenstina which I wrote a while ago while thinking about a friend who had died. However, it seems to have bec...
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Monday, March 30, 2009

Professional or protesting?

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When I was teaching in school, I used to take my form class to the registration-period assemblies that were the norm. If there was a visitin...
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Sunday, March 29, 2009

Looking the part

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I'm off to school again tomorrow, for the Easter Assemblies. I suddenly find myself thinking about work clothes rather than prayers, for...
Thursday, March 26, 2009

Single-sex teaching

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Well, well. It's a strange feeling to see the BBC Scotland news featuring something I did several years ago and hailing the development ...
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

1984 : finis

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Before drawing the curtain on my 1984, a few last thoughts. Writing about it was strangely cathartic, and I wonder if I would have felt less...
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Lenten poem

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There's a new poem over at frankenstina , actually written last week for the Lent Blog, Beauty from Chaos , where you will find many goo...
Monday, March 23, 2009

1984 revisited : Greenham Common

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Greenham Common Peace camp Originally uploaded by goforchris . The last act in an extraordinary year came in September, when word came th...
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Friday, March 20, 2009

1984 revisited: The choir

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Choir of '84 Originally uploaded by goforchris . Shortly after the Miners' Gala, our church choir, led by Mr B, took part in a fe...
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Thursday, March 19, 2009

1984 revisited: the Miners' gala

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Miners' gala Originally uploaded by goforchris . When I first thought of marking the 25th anniversary of the Miners' Strike, th...
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

1984 : many meetings

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A few moments to reflect on the strangeness of Easter 1984, and on what happens if you're an Episcopalian living in a small town when yo...
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