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Assembly ... Originally uploaded by goforchris . A rather different Christmas, that was - but captured in one of its best moments by th...

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Thursday, December 24, 2009

Angels in yellow waistcoats

This jolly picture, taken on the path from the Rectory to Holy Trinity church, is not of a member of our congregation, though there were a f...

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Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Great expectations

Presumably our expectations about life these days give rise to all the panic we see about ...well, snow. I have childhood memories of huge s...

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Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Helpful sharing!

This little gadget is the answer to a teetery maiden's prayer in this weather: rubber oversoles with spikes, which you pull on over your...

Friday, December 18, 2009

Unhelpful sharing

It's a strange feature of the way the mind works so that some images or comments stick and return to haunt us while others pass and are ...

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Of Time, and its passing*

Goodness. Another reminder of the passage of time in that most unpromising of venues, the recently-rebranded-as-Morrison's in Dunoon. Wi...

Sunday, December 13, 2009

A fold in time

Really far too tired to blog this, but the moment will pass otherwise... Today's concert, Words & Music for Christmas, was an old fo...

Saturday, December 12, 2009

A study in parenthesis

Found myself pondering stress, retirement and singing over breakfast this foggy morning. As usual for as long as I can remember - certainly ...

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Growing up is hard to do ...

I was catching up earlier this evening on a recent South Bank Show - the one where Carol Ann Duffy was interviewed. When Melvyn Bragg asked...

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Tuesday, December 08, 2009

Having a nosey

There's a newly-posted poem over at frankenstina. Written some time ago, it came to mind as I was playing around on Google Earth, seein...

Sunday, December 06, 2009

Culture? Go to the bottom of the class

Today's Herald carries a big piece on the anger of the arts world at the philistines who rule us - triggered on this occasion by the ...

Saturday, December 05, 2009

The last age ...

I was reminded this evening of how it is possible in the very old to see a sudden glimpse of the person as they must have looked in their yo...

Thursday, December 03, 2009

Sounds of the past

It is often said that smells are among the most evocative stimuli, but as I languished in what might well turn out to be the embrace of swin...

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Wednesday, December 02, 2009

Linguistic delights

A bright moment in the midst of the flu-induced gloom which currently swamps my life. An editorial by one of my offspring of which the openi...

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Party time!

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

Sunday, November 22, 2009

The mouse's tale

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...

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Change ... but no decay, yet.

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 ...

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...

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Let's elect a bishop (part 1)

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 ...

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Berlin Wall remembered