Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Being fair to the taxman?

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I completed my online tax return the other day. It reduced me to weeping and gnashing of teeth, and it took me all morning and made my lunch...
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011

The silver linings

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Though today I'm feeling rather less sunny than I have the past two days, I need to record that a couple of silver linings exist in the ...
Sunday, September 18, 2011

Marking time

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How strange life feels when you put everything on hold. Right now, I should be somewhere in the air above Europe, en route for a walking hol...
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Tuesday, September 06, 2011

Poetry roulette

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What a brilliant app the Poetry Foundation one is! I downloaded it on my iPad a few weeks ago at the suggestion of Ewan McIntosh , and on th...
Sunday, September 04, 2011

Health update on a Mac

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The blog's gone a bit quiet recently, I know. Partly it's been my need to keep up with my father's Letters from the Past - ther...
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Who's under the bed now?

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Oh, I shall miss The Hour . Quite apart from plunging me into a frenzy of 50s nostalgia , it's had me on the edge of my seat as it devel...
Sunday, August 21, 2011

Helped by The Help

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Belting through fiction as I am this summer, I feel that at least this one merited the (relatively brief) time I spent on it. I rattled thro...
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Scraps of memory

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Does the pic above stir a flood of memories, dear reader? If it does, I fear you may be approaching the sere, the yellow leaf, as I am ... b...
Friday, August 12, 2011

Jubilate fails to grip

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I thoroughly enjoyed Michael Arditti's Easter - so much so that I laughed aloud at the first page and exclaimed with horrified delight ...
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Tuesday, August 09, 2011

Very naughty indeed

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When I was very small, I used to lie awake in the light summer evenings and dread the arrival overhead of the 8pm flight from Paris into Ren...
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Monday, August 08, 2011

Reflecting on a link

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I've been thinking about the most recent of the Letters from the Past , in which my father introduces the subject of the bomb dropped tw...
Sunday, August 07, 2011

Grey day transfigured

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Holy Trinity church Originally uploaded by goforchris . It's a grey morning. I'm already damp because my umbrella was in the ...
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Tuesday, August 02, 2011

An hour in the past

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I spent a joyfully sinful hour this morning catching up, appropriately enough, on The Hour , on iPlayer. I don't know why it should have...
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Monday, August 01, 2011

The conversation

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Under a pale sun - not cool,just grey and calm - the words flowed. Dissonance and history, patronage and eternal things, maths and music...
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Sunday, July 31, 2011

Dancing Backwards for a holiday

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I always save promising books for holidays - by which I mean time spent away from home - and almost always end up hardly reading at all beca...
Wednesday, July 27, 2011

While life goes on ...

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We attended a midday Eucharist today in All Saints, Hereford - an ancient, city centre church that was in a bad way until a cafe was set up ...
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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Being here

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Caisteal Abhail and Ceum na Caillich Originally uploaded by goforchris . Being here has always mattered more than where I’m going. S...
Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Of crows (or not) and sinews

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Another improbably lovely morning in Glen Rosa as the early clouds melt and a hot sun shines on the garden - a totally private and sheltered...
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Sunday, July 10, 2011

Home, home ... In the glen

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It's an odd feeling to be here - and an annoying feeling not to be able to send a photo of here to the blog: for some reason, despite an...
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Wednesday, July 06, 2011

Chew, don't swallow.

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Another blog post, another novel. It's not that I've been devouring fiction more than usual, more a failure to blog that brings this...
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