Saturday, November 28, 2009

Party time!

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This (mercifully) blurred, phone-camera pic shows a kiddies' party in full swing. Actually, it's a first birthday party. The birthda...
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

The mouse's tale

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Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin. And if you're old enough to remember where that opening comes from, I trust you're...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Change ... but no decay, yet.

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We've got the decorators in at the moment. The contents of our biggest room - except for the piano and the harpsichord - are crammed int...
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Monday, November 16, 2009

Things left undone ...

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How often have you said something like I'll do that when I retire - that being anything from playing the violin to taking up tap danci...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Let's elect a bishop (part 1)

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Being a member of the Electoral Synod of Argyll and The Isles comes with its own particular challenges, not the least of which is the drive ...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Berlin Wall remembered

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A last, foolish, personal, wandering memory about the aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall. At the time, I was running the school magazi...
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Monday, November 09, 2009

Huvtaes galore

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My pal Kenny's been blogging about having a day off work, coinciding nicely with my thoughts today on what to some must seem like a lif...
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Slip of the tongue?

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A wonderful, poignant moment at this morning's Remembrance Sunday service. One of our few old servicemen went out to stand at the altar ...
Friday, November 06, 2009

Nectar from New Zealand

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I don't think I've ever blogged before about wine. But that's not to say I don't think about it, don't enjoy wine - and ...
Thursday, November 05, 2009

Apostrophe Disease: a remedy?

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I rejoiced at the discovery today of a web page dealing humorously and effectively with the use of the apostrophe. I've blogged before ...
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Monday, November 02, 2009

Pipe to the spirit ...

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Thought I'd join the hymn fray before it's all over bar the singing ... It's harder these days to find hymns that I can bear to ...
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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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