Saturday, November 17, 2012

Plotless novel of the religious life

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My mother gave me a copy of Sylvia Townsend Warner's novel The Corner That Held Them for Christmas in 1992. I read it at the time wit...
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Thursday, November 15, 2012

Teacher training - some questions

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I keep getting into conversations about education these days. What's the matter with me? I've obviously fallen into lassitude to be ...
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Monday, November 12, 2012

Testing the teacher

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Staving off the tedium of cough-recovery inactivity, I was ploughing through yesterday's Sunday Times when I came across a piece about t...
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Sunday, November 11, 2012

Pitfalls for travelling minstrels ...

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Not long after our return from Russia we found ourselves once more hosting a visit to Dunoon from the vocal ensemble Voskresenije from St...
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Wednesday, November 07, 2012

Do not forget Russia

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On a trip such as our Russian one, people become pretty important. Our first night on board we realised at dinner that we were surrounded...
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Monday, October 22, 2012

A Tale of Two Cities

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 I suppose this church, St Basil's in Red Square, Moscow, is what I perhaps thought of seeing when I was in Russia. And indeed, wh...
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Friday, October 19, 2012

Falling for Mother Russia

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 The holiday I've just taken in Russia began and ended in cities. We joined a river cruise in St Petersburg, spent three sunny days t...
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Saturday, September 29, 2012

Big weans: Avignon Fahrt, part 3.

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Retreat Originally uploaded by goforchris . Sometimes - often, in fact, our Avignon trip made me feel like a teenager. A young tee...
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Monday, September 24, 2012

Of bulls, flamingoes and rice

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A feature of our recent trip to France was the journeys we made around the area - we had a bus and driver at our command throughout (the d...
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Friday, September 14, 2012

Avignon Fahrt: episode 1

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Pont St Bénezet Before last week, I think I knew two things about Avignon. There was a bridge, and there had been popes there. You can r...
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Monday, August 27, 2012

A child's-eye Eucharist

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I had an interesting experience at church yesterday - a first, I'd say, in 34 years. Instead of sitting in the front pew where I can h...
Friday, August 24, 2012

A trip worth making

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I've been doing a bit of gadding this week. Two visits in three days to the Edinburgh Festival leaves this west coast resident a tad s...
Friday, August 17, 2012

This fasting caper ...

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I wonder how many who are reading this saw the fascinating programme about fasting and ageing on the telly? I recorded it - presumably du...
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Sunday, August 12, 2012

Of broom pods, technology, and speed

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After a week of glorious sunshine and pleasing photos, why do I post this pic of black broom pods? Ok - it's because it suits my mood ...
Saturday, July 21, 2012

I and me and chord sequences

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Oh bother. I'm feeling a grump coming on. Having spent longer than is sensible reading old green Penguins - see past entries - I buy a c...
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Thursday, July 19, 2012

Peirles Paramour...A journey into our past

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Fragment from text of document  I've been singing again. Back to where, in a way, it all began - and the time when the text on the ...
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Friday, July 06, 2012

Journey begins in bloggers meeting

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People who don't know about blogging still - after all these years - sneer at the idea. I'd rather meet people and have real conve...
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 ...