Monday, May 31, 2010

Elizabeth's song

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The babe leaps in my womb. and the Spirit has filled all my soul: blessed are you among women, and blessed the fruit of your womb! And why i...
Wednesday, May 26, 2010

New baby, new poem

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It's funny how a phone ringing in the night can have you lucid and wide-awake in seconds, especially when it's news of the safe arri...
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Sunday, May 23, 2010

Church must have ...?

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I've been taking part in what one commenter dubbed a blogalogue over on Jim Gordon's excellent blog, and feel driven to do a little...
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Friday, May 21, 2010

New poem on Orkney

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I've written a new poem, based on my experience in Orkney. I know I need to read and study some more poetry - there's a bit of a des...
Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Waiting

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Holy Trinity church Originally uploaded by goforchris . For the past year Holy Trinity Dunoon has been without a priest. As I write, ou...
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Monday, May 17, 2010

Touching the ancestors

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Henge and marker stone Originally uploaded by goforchris . The recent lack of posting on this blog has been largely because I was away on...
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Sunday, May 16, 2010

New blog on the block

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There's a new blogger on the Pisky scene. The Revd Andrew Swift arrives in Dunoon this week, and it's high time his aptly named blog...
Friday, May 14, 2010

Argyll still kicking

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The Electoral synod of Argyll and The Isles met yesterday. We should still have been in Oban today, deciding which candidate would become ou...
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Bere bannocks

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I've been on holiday - and though I took my laptop and had wifi in my excellent B&B I was too busy being on holiday to blog about an...
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Sunday, May 02, 2010

Sermon: Love one another ...

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This is what I preached today. It went down well with many people, but explosively badly with at least one other. It's in this awful bul...
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Friday, April 30, 2010

Blinkered vision

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Last weekend I ordered a book from Amazon - oh, the fatally easy one-click ordering! - and realised as I hit "buy" that it would a...
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Thursday, April 29, 2010

Electoral circus

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Last night's news left me more despairing about this election than I can ever remember. And the inane phone-in on BBC Scotland this morn...
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Saturday, April 24, 2010

Unreal city ...

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There are some benefits to having a cold bad enough to keep you grounded, of which reading - even, as I suggested in the last post, reading ...
Friday, April 23, 2010

Rose, thou art sick ...

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Feeling oppressed by the latest in a series of colds - after 6 years without one, I've had 4 in the past year as well as a proper dose o...
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Thursday, April 22, 2010

A Burnt-out case

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Another old, small paperback - and I've found that there are some of this edition of Graham Greene's A Burnt-out Case for sale on ...
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Sunday, April 18, 2010

Pay for Ning?

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Darn. The other day I read that Ning networks will have to be paid for - you can read it for yourself here . Now I always wonder just how al...
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Friday, April 16, 2010

Unregistered at last

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It's official. I am no longer eligible to teach in Scotland - I have the letter telling me so. I thought it was time to give up any pret...
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Laughter, pure and simple

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Just had to share this on somewhere I could find it again - the most wonderful example of total mirth and involvement. I don't know what...
Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Conservative anarchy?

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Well what was all that about? David Cameron's launch of the Tory Manifesto left me visualising the kind of mayhem that might result from...
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Sunday, April 11, 2010

Journey into an old friend

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I've just been re-reading Eric Ambler's thriller Journey into Fear , not in the Penguin Modern Classics edition shown here but in a ...
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