Friday, September 27, 2013

Ruins, wild goats and a grey Fiat

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 The real journey in Sicily began in a car. A not-very-comfortable, faintly tatty Fiat in battleship grey. We picked it up at Catania air...
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Wednesday, September 25, 2013

I'm back

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I've been away. Not just from the country - but yes, Sicily was wonderful, thanks - but also from my normal online activity. Instead of ...
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Sunday, August 11, 2013

Of fear, cheese and a shoogly crozier...

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Two rants in a row. Never mind, today feels more positive. Largely, that's the doing of two Argyll and The Isles clergy who managed to a...
Saturday, August 10, 2013

Bigots, homophobes and the love of God

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I like living where I do. Most of the time. But today I'd rather have been in my native Glasgow. I'd rather have been with friends o...
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Sunday, August 04, 2013

Not the Local Paper ...

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It's Sunday afternoon. Ok, it's early evening, but the idea holds: another Sunday afternoon in which I wasn't writing anything f...
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Thursday, August 01, 2013

Country mouse

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Take a look at that photo on the left. Go on - enlarge it if you haven't got your specs on. See all these people? They're all dres...
Friday, July 12, 2013

Of minnows, flounders and me

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I've decided I'm a simple soul, really. The picture above - and that's my footprint on the right - represents a perfect end ...
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Wednesday, July 03, 2013

Vernacular - a poem from a sermon. Sort of.

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The opening two lines of this poem appeared unbidden in my mind as I was listening to the sermon in Holy Trinity last Sunday. Hugh, this is ...
Monday, June 24, 2013

It's Time - Scotland's equal marriage video [Equality Network]

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It's midnight, or just past it. I should be asleep. We've got builders arriving in the morning to do destructive things to a wall ...
Sunday, June 23, 2013

Elephants, Proms, and the American Mad Mouse

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So the Kelvin Hall is to close. Gosh. It's taken me a while to catch up on this news, and it would seem that the arena was used for a ...
Monday, June 17, 2013

Weighting

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It always strikes me, in the bright morning light how the line on the cheap bathroom scales stops always just short - or just long? -...
Monday, June 03, 2013

Last words

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My last post , as anyone who still reads this blog will know, was an appreciation of an old friend. And I was glad (you can tell I sang this...
Thursday, May 09, 2013

Pervixi ... in memoriam ABF

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ABF and Mr B, 2012 I don't know what prompted me to take the above photo, but today I'm glad that I halted, called to the other...
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Saturday, May 04, 2013

A requiem for Philip II

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As dawn breaks and church bells toll slowly all over Toledo, an elaborate funeral procession winds its way through the city's streets....
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Thursday, April 25, 2013

Weeping and alleluias

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Today I attended the funeral of someone I've known since I was twelve - when I started secondary school, even though we were at differen...
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Monday, April 15, 2013

A pilgrim church?

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What makes a church? The answer, the obvious answer, the answer you know to be the right one, is the people. The community that worships t...
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

De mortuis

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What does someone of mature years who tries to live under/up to a belief-system that encourages compassion say about the passing of Margaret...
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Friday, April 05, 2013

A pivot into eternity

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Sometimes in life there is an epiphany, quite unexpected, quite unsought. So it was this evening, towards the end of a meal that I had enjoy...
Friday, March 29, 2013

After the ninth hour

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Dead. That’s about it, really - dead inside my head, dead inside my heart as we lift the dead weight of our friend who was more ...
Friday, March 22, 2013

Love your neighbours?

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How does a Christian know she is living out her faith in her everyday life? (I'm not excluding chaps here, not at all, but I'm a she...
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