Monday, June 29, 2009

Wallowing in nostalgia

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I had a lovely wallow in nostalgia today, courtesy of Bill, who sent me this link to a film of the last day of the Glasgow trams. This was ...
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Friday, June 26, 2009

Gone is that music...

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How strange to realise that in the past couple of hours I've heard more Michael Jackson songs than at any other time in my life. I recog...
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Thursday, June 25, 2009

Blast from the past

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DGS Wind Band 1989 Originally uploaded by goforchris . This has to be a record for me - I put this photo on flickr this morning and alrea...
Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Simple pleasures?

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This morning over breakfast I was catching up on an essay in the Sunday Herald on the subject of consumerism. The writer, whose name eludes ...
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Sunday, June 21, 2009

Taking precautions

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Sometimes there is an incongruity about the things we do in public. Take worship, in these times of pestilence. An edict was spread abroad s...
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Thursday, June 18, 2009

Grim occupation

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What a powerful drama Occupation (BBC1, this week) has been - and what good actors we have in this country. I don't know which aspect o...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Learning by experience

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I’ve decided on a new approach to life, that of viewing everything potentially unpleasant as A New Experience. And they don’t come much more...
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Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Rampant hypochondria?

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It’s strange what a mix of hypochondria, selfishness and what might pass for common sense under the circumstances does to one’s life. Livin...
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Monday, June 08, 2009

Bows and cheesy grins

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Yesterday the Diocese of Argyll and The Isles had a ball. Not the kilts-and-ballgowns type of ball, but the exuberance of a Diocesan Festiva...
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Thursday, June 04, 2009

Cool!

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It certainly is a distant land, this Eastern realm. We left Dunoon yesterday in 21º of warmth, and two hours later the car said 13º in the s...
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Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Loud twittering

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Is Twitter the big thing these days, then? Yesterday a media job was advertised through Twitter and the applicant twittering about his succ...
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Monday, June 01, 2009

Sweltering and swine flu

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Well, well. Or, if you like: ill, ill. Swine flu has arrived in Dunoon , not in single spies but in battalions. Ok. I exaggerate. 18 Dunoon...
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Friday, May 29, 2009

The problem of ...

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Been a bit obsessed by teeth recently, largely because mine have seen better days and are beginning to complain about my treatment of them. ...
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Thursday, May 28, 2009

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Been thinking some more about the Twittering Teacher . The Oban Times piece is so hysterical that the first reaction is still to laugh, to...
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009

When teacher's away ...

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It’s such a relief, such a good feeling, when old friends find in each other what they need to make progress. Such a feeling as this morning...
Friday, May 22, 2009

Twittering Argyll and Bute

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I've just picked up (via AB ) on an interesting wee story set in my own local authority and involving some outrage over the Tweets of a ...
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Thursday, May 21, 2009

A guided journey

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One of the lesser-known benefits of religious practice is to be found in Spiritual Direction . While many Anglicans know that this is someth...
Tuesday, May 19, 2009

A strange Resurrection

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I've just finished reading The Resurrection of the Body by Maggie Hamand. It was sent to me by a friend whose recommendations I trust, ...
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Monday, May 18, 2009

Songs and a poem

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I've posted a poem today, over at frankenstina . It's one I began on the bus home from France, and only today got down to decipherin...
Sunday, May 17, 2009

Unprepared

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In Delville Wood Originally uploaded by goforchris . I had to preach this morning. I was relatively unprepared, for I only learned abou...