Sunday, February 27, 2011

Lilies of the field?

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I'm a great one for a bit of symbolism, and tend to become inordinately excited when I'm surprised by something beautiful. I knew t...
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Friday, February 25, 2011

Out of the dark ...

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It's amazing how a sudden change in the weather can make such a difference to life. Perhaps I should qualify that. When I lived in the ...
Friday, February 18, 2011

Notes on a letter from the past.

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I've just been posting another of my father's wartime letters on Letters from the Past . In this one , he is rejoicing at the confir...
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Thursday, February 17, 2011

Bubbling away

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Time for confession. I've become addicted to a game. And it's on my iPad - so I don't even have to visit the study to play it. B...
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Recycling gay marriage

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Sometimes I can't help myself. It happened this morning. At least I didn't reach for the phone - but I did send a mail. What was it ...
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Saturday, February 12, 2011

Class wars in Doyle

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AS I start this post, I notice that the photo accompanying the one about +Kevin's consecration has vanished. I hope it's a temporary...
Friday, February 04, 2011

'Tis done ... we have a Bishop!

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Don't they look jolly? The chaps in the gold hats are the current bishops of the SEC; the others are either retired or from overseas - b...
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Thursday, February 03, 2011

Wild things

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This wild and wooly day happened to coincide with a fairly long-standing arrangement to visit Edinburgh, so having chipped the ice from the ...
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Wednesday, February 02, 2011

Enjoying an old 'tec

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In keeping with my current preoccupation , I've dipped back into my childhood years again with this excellent Penguin Classic, The Tiger...
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Sunday, January 30, 2011

A fascinating letter

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The letter I've just been posting on Letters from the Past   is full of interest. My father must have been underemployed on duty that ni...
Sunday, January 23, 2011

Hats from the past

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It's amazing how one - or at least I - can become obsessed with a subject. I've always known this - at least from the period of Anci...
Saturday, January 22, 2011

Walking in the air

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Walking in the air Originally uploaded by goforchris . The photo accompanying this post shows how magical this afternoon was. After a...
Friday, January 21, 2011

Stringent

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My current preoccupation with  Letters from the Past  means I have less time - and fewer thoughts - to post on this blog, but after a flurry...
Thursday, January 20, 2011

A blog from World War 2

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For the past week I've been reading through a box of letters written by my father to my mother in 1945. Having spent a month or so in Gl...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Waste of parents?

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I'm currently working on a fascinating project to put online a great collection of letters from my father written during 1945 and theref...
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Saturday, January 15, 2011

Voyage into 3D

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I've come over all industrious in the last couple of days - started work on a new blog to make use of fascinating family archive materi...
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Moving swiftly on: parenting and education

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Considering my own childhood - and I realise it must seem odd to many - led me inexorably to think about my own role as a parent trying to e...
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Thursday, January 13, 2011

The parental role in education

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The radio was on this morning, wittering away in the background, when I caught a few sentences and realised that Call Kay  was inviting us t...
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Monday, January 10, 2011

Catharsis in Walford

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Another week in the Square begins; Ronnie (right) is still holding the baby and the Moons are about to bury the dead infant that they believ...
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Sunday, January 09, 2011

On lecterns, and cold hands

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Eagle lectern Originally uploaded by goforchris . Brass eagles don't usually leap into the mind when the weather is cold - monkey...
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