Thursday, November 21, 2013

Do you remember...?

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Well of course I remember. I was eighteen, for God’s sake. Impressionable, emotional, in love with too many people to enumerate - includin...
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Saturday, November 09, 2013

Reflections on a life-long process

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A discussion this afternoon as we walked down the Bishop's Glen under a miraculously cleared sky had me thinking. Not, on this occasion,...
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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

War and Peace and the new translation

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I've done it. Another of the imperatives crossed off the list, which only means, presumably, that I draw closer to shuffling off this ...
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Sunday, October 20, 2013

How was it for you?

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It was great. I need to say that right away. After - as I found out today - 28 weeks in our own particular wilderness of worshipping on a ...
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Friday, October 18, 2013

Home again!

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We're ba..a...ck! (All right, that movie wasn't yesterday, but I can't resist the probably inappropriate allusion) A gang of ...
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Friday, October 04, 2013

The men in the radio

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We were listening to music on the radio the other night - hardly surprising; we do this every night in life - and for some reason discover...
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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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