Sunday, May 15, 2011

The Collection

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I'm just back from doing the Christian Aid collection with my pal Mrs Heathbank . Because we are relatively lithe and active (I know, bu...
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Friday, May 13, 2011

Climbing through the past

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Familiar stair Originally uploaded by goforchris . Well, that was fun. Two hours spent in a building that seemed (predictably) to hav...
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Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Time travelling today ...

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Today I'm going to visit the school this grinning child attended: Hillhead Primary School in Glasgow. (And if you follow me on Twitter y...
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Monday, May 09, 2011

The Revolution: a traditional English teacher’s take.

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It's that time of the year - exam time, when suddenly the seniors have vanished and the tired teacher has time to reflect but finds she ...
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Saturday, May 07, 2011

And now it's all over ...

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SNP Manifesto at a glance Originally uploaded by Ewan McIntosh . Wow. In the rainy aftermath of the Scottish election there's tim...
Friday, May 06, 2011

Doomsday without spoilers

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If I tell you that the copy of Connie Willis' Doomsday Book in the photo was one I actually ordered from the US because Amazon UK was n...
Tuesday, May 03, 2011

One for the flight bag

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I finished reading Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace just before the busyness of Holy Week began, and now wish I'd saved it for a holid...
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Monday, May 02, 2011

Still singing after all these years ...

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Are we all ready? Originally uploaded by goforchris . Readers of this blog will know that I sing a bit. Yesterday the group with whic...
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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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