Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Traditional and effective

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The photo accompanying this post records one of these satisfying grandmother moments. I'd been holding Anna (4 weeks old) in the hope th...
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Friday, December 24, 2010

Christmas Eve, differently

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More history Originally uploaded by goforchris . Traditions endure - and yet things change. Until a couple of years ago, Carols from ...
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Thursday, December 23, 2010

Controversial nativity?

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I was looking for an illustration to this post when I came upon this story . Apparently the BBC production which has just ended, The Nativi...
Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Revelation

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That blackbird ... Originally uploaded by goforchris . Having recently learned the shocking truth that birds lose something like a t...
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Sunday, December 19, 2010

Amid the winter's snow ...

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Closing voluntary Originally uploaded by goforchris . Well, we were lucky. After yesterday's snow, yesterday's hypochondria a...
Saturday, December 18, 2010

Glasgow Royal cheers

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It's snowing, inconveniently, but I'm not going to mention it again. Instead, I'm going to indulge in a wee paean of praise for ...
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Another Advent poem

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I've posted another Advent poem on frankenstina. I'm grateful for the commission that led me to write it, and hope that as the maga...
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Monday, December 13, 2010

A new look at Advent with a new birth

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After a week of dead brain and frozen imagination, I've found the words to express how I felt when little Anna was born. You can see the...
Sunday, December 12, 2010

An old friend rediscovered

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Have you ever spent years, on and off, looking for something, becoming convinced that a malevolent guest has nicked it, or that you somehow ...
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Friday, December 10, 2010

On parenting, and further

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On the way to the bus in the snow Originally uploaded by Ewan McIntosh I've borrowed this video* from Ewan because it has me and Mr B...
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Thursday, December 09, 2010

Change of face?

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Goodness. That was exciting - and quite disconcerting. For a full 24 hours it seems I have been someone else, though it took a remark on th...
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Wednesday, December 08, 2010

The anatomy of enjoyment ...

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I've dragged myself away from the latest Kate Atkinson ( Started Early, Took my Dog ) partly in an effort not to gallop through it too ...
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Tuesday, December 07, 2010

Ghosts of winters past

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Pretty, innit? Snow on Newhaven Harbour, with the Forth Bridges in the distance. A good cue to get me started, as the Forth Road Bridge was ...
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Monday, November 29, 2010

Reflections on a man's place

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At last - I've got on to a proper computer so that I can blog. Meet Anna, my new granddaughter - whom we're currently waiting to gre...
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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

The waiting season

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It's cold, tonight. At the end of this afternoon, the sky behind us grew in a wonderful flaming intensity over the still, shining sea ly...
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Sunday, November 21, 2010

Godly weans

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Oh dear, I fear I'm pushing the boat out: another post and it's not tomorrow yet. But I have this awareness of time's winged cha...

Another fold

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This cloud - taken from tags in this blog, using Tagxedo , has nothing to do with what I'm thinking, other than that I should be doing s...
Monday, November 15, 2010

Celebrating MacCaig in style

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This is The Library in Waxy O'Connor's pub in Glasgow, where I spent a delightful evening with seven others reading and discussing ...
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Sunday, November 14, 2010

I am the enemy you killed, my friend ...

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Moonrise over the Cross Originally uploaded by goforchris . Strange Meeting It seemed that out of battle I escaped Down some profound d...
Saturday, November 13, 2010

Progress Report, anyone?

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This pic shows the end of a fascinating exchange on Twitter last night, one which sums up much of what I love about social media - but which...
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