Saturday, April 30, 2011

Grauniad alive and well and better online

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I had the interesting experience yesterday - yes, I know there was a wedding going on, but there was life beyond that - of experiencing for ...
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Of plain chant, coal heavers and feathers...

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I've referred recently to singing plainsong  - though the singing of the example on this Wiki page wouldn't encourage anyone, I fear...
Sunday, April 24, 2011

The Cross gets in the way ...

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Paschal Candle in Holy Trinity by Sharon Barnard Earlier today I found myself sitting at the computer in the quiet aftermath of an exuber...
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Saturday, April 23, 2011

Birdsong in Gethsemane

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In the darkling garden a lone bird   drops liquid notes like dark blood beneath the quiet trees. And then silence. And in the silence the ol...
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Friday, April 22, 2011

Holy Week observed

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Lady Chapel after Mass Originally uploaded by goforchris . The picture here comes from the beginning of my personal Holy Week, when...
Saturday, April 16, 2011

Episcopal hoolie on Cumbrae

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Joyously random Originally uploaded by goforchris . Well, that was another wonderful Argyll and The Isles hoolie. And Bishop Kevin ha...
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Sunday, April 10, 2011

A plank of the past

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I first read The Moving Toyshop in my teens. In fact, I may have been swotting for my Highers, or maybe the few O Grades I was compelled to...
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Thursday, April 07, 2011

Riotous Science

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Now what shall I do? Originally uploaded by goforchris . What a day! My first ever visit to the Science Centre in Glasgow took place...
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Friday, April 01, 2011

Sin and self

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Been thinking about sin. Or Sin, if you like. (It's Lent, after all.) In many ways it's an old-fashioned concept these days. It'...
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Friday, March 25, 2011

Annunciation and burial

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Funeral on Lady Day for Neil McKellar A bird is singing in the tall trees over and over the same liquid notes spilling over the dug ear...
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

A country funeral

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Musta been funny anyway! Originally uploaded by goforchris . Yesterday, unbelievably when I look at this jolly photo from last June, ...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Spring contrasts

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 This morning was swathed in fog, here on the Clyde coast. It was cold, damp, grey and depressing. It looked as if it might stay like that a...
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Once more Ultreya ...

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Last weekend saw the first Cursillo in Scotland weekend for almost two years, after a period of reflection leading to a determination to ret...
Thursday, March 10, 2011

Caught up in the past

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I've been so taken up by the process of blogging my father's wartime letters that I find myself adopting his style of delivery on oc...
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Monday, March 07, 2011

Playing away...

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Must post briefly about yesterday's gig with 8+1 in Rothesay. One of the things about singing in a smallish group with no natural base (...
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Thursday, March 03, 2011

Taking off in Argyll and The Isles

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This slightly hazy photo (courtesy of Al ) is all I have to remind me of Diocesan Synod - that and the rather dog-eared copy of the Synod pa...
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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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