Wednesday, January 30, 2013

A very Pisky hoolie

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Choir at work Originally uploaded by goforchris . Other people have posted about last Saturday's lovely service in the Cathedr...
Thursday, January 10, 2013

An anniversary

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George Douglas, 1888-1973. It's a while since I first mentioned George James Cosmo Douglas, onetime Dean of the diocese of Argyll a...
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Thursday, January 03, 2013

The road goes ever on and on ...

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A very holiday thing to do - though for the past few years one we've kept till the day the schools went back - is to make the trip to ...
Saturday, December 29, 2012

Lights in the darkness

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..and more candles Originally uploaded by goforchris . All right - I'm late with a blog post on Christmas . Tough. I've no...
Saturday, December 22, 2012

Prayer and prayers.

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I was listening to Desert Island Discs yesterday - or rather, it was on in the background and I suddenly became interested. The castaway ...
Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Random Russian phone notes

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The White Lake, from Kirilov I was pottering about on my phone the other day - the sort of thing you do while sitting on the ferry - an...
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Thursday, December 06, 2012

Warmth, light and love: the Advent journey

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If you're really old - a silver surfer par excellence - you might remember this book: Footprints in the Snow , by the author with the ...
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Tuesday, December 04, 2012

Advent: waiting in the moment

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Advent again. And every year, a little more suddenly than the preceding year, the same ritual tasks - that moment when you realise that it...
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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...