Saturday, October 31, 2009

Guising, anyone?

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Hallowe'en. Guisers. None of your 'trick-or-treat' nonsense - that's American. Guisers had to go round in the rain and the d...
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Friday, October 30, 2009

Calm restored. For now.

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Well well. The Dunoon Observer appeared today with my piece over which the argument arose intact - complete with the "Ands" which...
Thursday, October 29, 2009

Voskresenije in Ayr

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Went to hear my old friends Voskresenije last night - in Ayr, for they aren't singing in Dunoon this year. (The impresario is too busy ...
Tuesday, October 27, 2009

House style in the sticks

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Urged on by Tim, I was going to blog about hymns. But the grim weather has turned my thoughts instead to the irritation caused by our local ...
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Sunday, October 25, 2009

Backward in Fear?

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Having an extra hour on a Sunday morning gives time to think about what we do - on Sundays, for sure, though not exclusively - when we go to...
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Friday, October 23, 2009

Sponged, again

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Yesterday evening I was in a packed church - and St John's, Princes Street is quite a size to pack - to hear Bishop Jack Spong talk abo...
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Monday, October 19, 2009

Love's Labours Lost

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Love's Labours Lost Originally uploaded by goforchris . I know I've blogged about this already, but I needed to return to the e...
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Saturday, October 17, 2009

Change and decay ...

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The new cell phone arrived while I was away. Actually, two phones - one for Mr B as well - and they came early despite my earnest conversati...
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Sunday, October 11, 2009

Master Byrd and holy smoke

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To Sung Eucharist at Southwark Cathedral. And an excellent eperience it was too; not least because Mr B and I, freed from the constraints...
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009

Shakespearian evening

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To The Globe last evening, to see Shakespeare's Love's Labours Lost . Quite an experience! Our already excellent seats were upgraded...
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Saturday, October 03, 2009

Christie in a country house?

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Having gone on about the storm brewing last night, I had to use this pic to demonstrate the hazards of life in these parts at this season - ...
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Friday, October 02, 2009

Ancient Mariners again

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Sometimes they get the weather forecast just right. And so it is today: they promised us gales overnight and into Saturday, and as I sit by ...
Thursday, October 01, 2009

Still climbing after all these years ...

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As I write, my legs moan quietly: were you wise? My feet feel ... stressed, and my knees, especially the right one, feel as if someone has p...
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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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