Sunday, February 26, 2012

Importunate Witnesses

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I invite you to share a few moments of my Saturday morning. It won't take long... I am sitting in the study, working on various bits a...
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Saturday, February 25, 2012

Restoration, in more ways than one.

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I've recently discovered Rose Tremain - I'm still in that lovely place when you realise that someone whose writing you enjoy has wr...
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Monday, February 20, 2012

How the other half lives with liturgy ...

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Last week I spent some time in interestingly erudite company thinking about Liturgy. I tend to feel, on these occasions, like the class idio...
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Monday, February 13, 2012

Carver, Tallis and ghosts

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We don't go to concerts often these days - we're as likely to be performing as listening, to be honest, and the late-night return, ...
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Saturday, February 11, 2012

Wrestling with Swedish hornets

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I managed, for reasons associated with where I live, not to see the film of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , though I wish I had and still ...
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Thursday, February 09, 2012

The tax man, the musician and the poet: a cautionary tale.

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It couldn't last. All that laid-back, chilled cheerfulness induced by some out-of-season sun and warmth had to be dissipated, didn't...
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Sunday, February 05, 2012

Off the beach ...

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Fort among the palms:al Bitnah Originally uploaded by goforchris . Eight hours after arriving at Dubai airport, we set off on a trip ...
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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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