Wednesday, September 30, 2009

All this, and Heaven too ....

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There are some things we have to do in life which almost no-one else understands. My have-to is to return ever so often to the island of Arr...
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Monday, September 28, 2009

Silver linings - or simply wet?

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This post is for the people of the future. The people who have run out of water, if tonight's news on climate change is to be believed, ...
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Sunday, September 27, 2009

Thought for the day

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Now here's a thing. Take a small pisky church, inconveniently if picturesquely sited on a small hill at the very back of a seaside town ...
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Thursday, September 24, 2009

Captions and socks

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I feel it only proper to direct readers of this blog to Mad Priest's place , where he has been running a caption competition on my pic o...
Sunday, September 20, 2009

Ubi caritas et amor, ibi Deus est ...

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It was my turn this week to write up the service at Holy T for the local paper. Thirty-one years ago in the same paper (oh dear - I must be ...
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Saturday, September 19, 2009

Roman excesses in the Dome

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See the things you can do in London? This is one of them: a night at what I still think of as the Millennium Dome but which is now called Th...
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Monday, September 14, 2009

Singing to God

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Read this the other day and couldn't resist sharing it. It's from a commentary on the psalms by Augustine. 'Sing to God a new so...
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Thursday, September 10, 2009

Cut flowers - for Ruby

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And when they laid that rough-cut board across your grave and on it flowers, flowers on flowers against the grass, lilies, roses and unnumbe...
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Tuesday, September 08, 2009

Recollected in tranquillity

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I've spent the last two hours singing the most beautiful music, practising for a gig on Sunday when the St Maura Singers celebrate their...
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Sunday, September 06, 2009

Casting off

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Laying down the staff Originally uploaded by goforchris . Yesterday the Bishop of Argyll ceremonially signalled the end of his episcopa...
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Thursday, September 03, 2009

Dark skies over Dunoon

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Dark skies over Dunoon Originally uploaded by goforchris . Another gloomy morning, the kind of day when getting on with it seems pointl...
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Monday, August 31, 2009

Aleatoric Iggle Piggle

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Hmm. Both hands Originally uploaded by goforchris . There's something wonderful about watching discovery happen. Catriona, who'...
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Saturday, August 29, 2009

Hydraulic civilisation?

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Once upon a time - a year ago, almost exactly - I wrote a poem based on something we had done in church, something that involved filling th...
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Thursday, August 27, 2009

Of micro-tales and poems

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The rain is back, the wind is blowing. Cowal Games weekend is upon us, and creativity seems to be returning as the swallows leave. Take a lo...
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Perfect music

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Let's have an encore! Originally uploaded by goforchris . Must be the fact that after another drowned day the sun has come out - too ...
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Sunday, August 23, 2009

Compassion feels right

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I had intended that I would post today about joyous things - about the best concert I've been to in years, about my grand-daughter's...
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Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Ancient Mariners

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Turning tail Originally uploaded by goforchris . Every now and again it becomes necessary to do something which doesn't involve chu...
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Monday, August 17, 2009

Dental impressions

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Thought I'd share a few thoughts on - well, on dental crown preparation. As you do, if you've just sat through this procedure. For a...
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Friday, August 14, 2009

Mildew no more

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I observe today how easy it is to slip into a condition of permanent chaos. There is even a kind of order to it - the big step over the disp...
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Thursday, August 13, 2009

Barry the Gas and the Andrews Sisters

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Verily I live a strange life at times. At the moment, Barry the Gas is banging around in the back bedroom, trying to weave various pipes thr...
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