Saturday, July 25, 2009

Psausages and Psalms - a BBQ with a difference

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sausages. Bet you never thought of spelling sausages with an initial P, but it seemed quite the thing to do when coupling the psausages with...
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Thursday, July 23, 2009

Summer reading, but not light

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JUst finished reading A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. It's as well I have managed to be sufficiently summer-holiday-minded...
Monday, July 20, 2009

Ur Beatha Dhan Dùthaich - A Highland Homecoming

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Ever since I became a member of the Scottish Episcopal Church, in the early ‘70s, I’ve been aware that it is regarded by many native Scots a...
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Friday, July 17, 2009

Grandma's noisy night

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From our bedroom Originally uploaded by goforchris . During our Italian holiday, the cough that had plagued me for a week in June r...
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Linguistic creativity

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Very ladylike Originally uploaded by goforchris . Our recent holiday in Italy brought home to me what incredible creatures small childr...
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Thursday, July 09, 2009

Apero time

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As I sit languidly on the patio waiting for the chef to bring an aperitif and the footman to deal with the parasol - currently drooping over...
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Monday, July 06, 2009

Sun gear

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This blogette/bloguette/whatever is really for Mrs Tosh, who provided the excellent anti-sunburn garment worn by Catriona in the photo. It...
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Sunday, July 05, 2009

Dulce domum

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This is the back of our house, with a few of the 15 resident cats in attendance. After a post prandial walk through Colle di Val d'Elsa ...
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Thursday, July 02, 2009

Summer's lease

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I'll not be blethering much over the next week or so - off to Tuscany with Mr B, as well as the Edublogger family. It's been so hot...
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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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