blethers

Yesterday I posted about suddenly realising I could still feel what it was like to experience the world as when I was a child. And toda...

Monday, February 25, 2013

LIfe in the bubble of wonder

On the boat Originally uploaded by goforchris . Do you remember being a child? Oh, yes ... all these years ago ... But do you real...

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Just war memories in Lent

I went to the first meeting of the Lent Course today and found myself involved - or perhaps trying not to get too involved, or trying not to...

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

A fashion for penitence?

Ash Wednesday. It snowed all morning, and now the rain is washing down the windows - but judging from the whiteness of the roofs opposite ...

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Friday, February 08, 2013

Pure dead relevant

The other evening - well, more like teatime - I attended an Information Evening in the University of Glasgow Medical School, the atrium o...

Thursday, February 07, 2013

Talking posh

Just before I left the house this morning, I caught a snatch of Call Kaye on the radio. Should we be insisting that our children talk 'p...

Sunday, February 03, 2013

Rebus in arduis *

It's Sunday. You've celebrated Candlemas, because you could - a day late, but in the boondocks you can't celebrate too often and...

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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

A very Pisky hoolie

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

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

Thursday, January 03, 2013

The road goes ever on and on ...

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

..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.

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

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...

Thursday, December 06, 2012

Warmth, light and love: the Advent journey

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

Tuesday, December 04, 2012

Advent: waiting in the moment

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

Saturday, November 17, 2012

Plotless novel of the religious life

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

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

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 ...

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