Monday, January 30, 2012

Why Dubai?

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Why are you going there? they said. Dubai's a horrible place, someone else informed me. Never mind the oddity of telling someone that ...
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Saturday, January 21, 2012

Online Evening Prayer

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I've just been to Evening Prayer - sharing with people from Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen without even leaving my study. Google+ has o...
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Friday, January 20, 2012

Educational collaboration: a student's view

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Every now and again there comes a comment on the blog that I wish could be seen by more people. Today I'm taking steps to make that happ...
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Sunday, January 15, 2012

Seduced into education - again

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I was seduced yesterday - my day taken over by the temptation to participate in an Education Think Tank at BETT. In London. No, I didn'...
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Friday, January 13, 2012

To boldly go ...

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There are some fascinating things coming out of the woodwork now that Scottish Independence is once more in the news. This bizarre star ship...
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Cathartic Iron Lady

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It is a tradition - or has been since work no longer interfered - to visit Glasgow on Mr B's birthday, meet rellies, take in a movie (f...
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Saturday, January 07, 2012

Visceral learning

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It's almost the end of the school holidays, and the thoughts of even this retired teacher turn, once more, to education. Is it my coming...
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Tuesday, January 03, 2012

Back to the stone age?

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Photo: Campbell Bryson I'm indebted to (brave/foolhardy/dedicated) local photographer Campbell Bryson for the photo that  I'm too...
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Monday, January 02, 2012

Glass baubles and messages

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Glass bauble Originally uploaded by goforchris . I was remarking with friends last night how traditional my style of Christmas tree i...
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Saturday, December 31, 2011

Round-up

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Last read of the year I realise, through the Lemsip-induced haze of another cold, that I've been remiss in reviewing books recently. ...
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Thursday, December 22, 2011

Meanwhile, in a parallel universe ...

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The kitchen is warm. No - it is actually unbearably hot. The erstwhile poet/musician, transformed for the nonce into Domestic Goddess, is ha...
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Thinking of angels

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Oh, do not try to make it ordinary or even think of credibility - this visitation by the angel or many to shepherds in their freezing f...
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Monday, December 19, 2011

Winter Solstice

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The silver tree is a white ghost in the dimpled white of last week’s snow as the pale glow in the eastern sky shows where the short-lived ...
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Sunday, December 18, 2011

See amid the winter ... ice

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8+1 in Holy Trinity What word do I choose? What word expresses the elation of this afternoon? For all that words are my business, I don...
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Saturday, December 17, 2011

Words, words, words...

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I've made a belated discovery about the potency - or otherwise - of words. Words of carols, to be specific, and words of other choral mu...
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Mortal thoughts

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I was at the funeral today of someone we've known all the time we've lived here, a stalwart of the kirk. The church was packed. And ...
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Off the hook...

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Ok. I know I've been fretting about this holiday my offspring has taken his family on. But goodness, that does look like fun. And it...
Wednesday, December 07, 2011

Advent song in audio

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For all the lovely people who commented so appreciatively about the new anthem this week, I've made my first attempt at uploading a vide...
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Sunday, December 04, 2011

Advent Song

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Look, God, look in the vastness of your dark hear this song in the chorus of the world where I sing for the glory of your coming held by lov...
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Saturday, December 03, 2011

New passport, new pictures

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My new passport arrived yesterday, and its predecessor, duly snipped, this morning. So I'll start by saying how impressed I am with the ...
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