Saturday, June 30, 2012

Hamlet, revenge!

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I was interested to see that at least one person had offered on Amazon the very copy of Michael Innes's Hamlet, Revenge that I have j...
Tuesday, June 26, 2012

A mug's game ...

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I wouldn't describe myself as a royalist. Nor do I collect china - I've never even owned a display cabinet, something I feel marks...
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Sunday, June 24, 2012

The Pisky and the Press

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The astute/interested/bored reader of this blog will know that I've been otherwise engaged these last few days - benign activities to ...
Saturday, June 23, 2012

After the rain

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I have just realised something wonderful. I've suspected it for a few weeks, but today I was sure. I seem to have got my sense of smel...
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Friday, June 15, 2012

Never Seconds trends on Twitter

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I love it. The power of Twitter, that is. I can't be said to love the council for whom I used to work and in whose area I live, nor th...
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Monday, June 11, 2012

Proud - and twittering

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Another Synod gone, and only one photo on my camera of the proceedings (it is surely appropriate that I use one of Fr. Kelvin addressing ...
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Friday, June 01, 2012

Elizabeth's song

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The babe leaps in my womb, and the Spirit has filled all my soul: blessed are you among women, and blessed the fruit of your wom...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Old haunts again

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Back at the old paperbacks again - my third Michael Innes in three weeks,  a reversion to almost-childhood with one of my favourites, Op...
Saturday, May 19, 2012

Grey May thoughts

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The weather remains thoroughly and dispiritingly wintry - for winter in these maritime parts is just like this: raw winds, smirring rain wit...
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Sunday, May 06, 2012

Miners' Gala 1984

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Miners' gala Originally uploaded by goforchris . I’m riding on a lorry through the Edinburgh streets. Beside me is a missile...
Saturday, May 05, 2012

Hugh Lyons, RIP

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Hugh on the bonfire Originally uploaded by goforchris . Hugh Lyons was an adventurer. I was aware of him around Holy Trinity Church fo...
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Friday, May 04, 2012

Stylish nonsense

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There are times when the brain shrinks and all one needs is the soothing assurance of a good friend - like, for instance, when one has a b...
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Wednesday, May 02, 2012

Rite of passage

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I became acquainted with the writing of Michael Arditti through the meticulous and often hilarious Easter , and wishlisted his rite-of-pas...
Monday, April 23, 2012

Fragmentation capured in a first novel

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Writing on Shakespeare's birthday, I'm tempted to report that my withers are wrung by Samantha Harvey's The Wilderness .  This...
Sunday, April 22, 2012

Haydn sets me off again ...

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It happened again. That sudden tide of memory washing over and through, this time triggered by four notes: the opening of Hadyn's Symp...
Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Lilacs out of the dead land

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April is the cruellest month - you bet it is. These light, chilly days, the sudden glimpse of primroses by a burn or a lone violet amids...
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Sunday, April 15, 2012

Deeply satisfying

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A couple of weeks ago now I finished reading Vikram Seth's An Equal Music  - though if I'd read the review published on the Amazon...
Friday, April 06, 2012

The Garden

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That night there was no peace in the garden. The voice beat randomly and wordless on the shrinking sense as the flames flickered irr...
Sunday, April 01, 2012

Queasy among the palms

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I think I have never felt good about Palm Sunday. Whether it was reading/hearing the whole of the Passion story, or concentrating on the eve...
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Thursday, March 29, 2012

Never constituted to be a saint*

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I finished reading Richard Holloway's Leaving Alexandria last week, but was overtaken by sunshine and the desire to be out of doors so...
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