Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Unpredictable - a poem revisited.

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I've finally got round to some revising - a poem I wrote in Vietnam, in the heat and humidity of our first days there, before I'd se...
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Monday, March 14, 2016

Fair buzzing in Oban

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Victorious table at dinner I've mulled it over for the past five days, but now I realise that Synod reports are being demanded - not...
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Monday, February 01, 2016

Of urban open spaces and a post-war childhood

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I was reading the other day about a dispute over an area of land in the West of Glasgow which is currently used as a (relatively) wild place...
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Sunday, January 17, 2016

A cold collation ...

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The weather wasn't promising. Snow yesterday and a cold night - a typical recipe for a stressful cold coming to church in the morning, w...
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Thursday, January 07, 2016

The meeting

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THE MEETING This the night when under the dark dome the hard stars shine and that one shines brighter than them all, the night when ...
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Saturday, January 02, 2016

Sere or sage?

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No, it's not a typo. In fact, I'm rather pleased with the title of this post, which came to me with the delightful inconsequence t...
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Thursday, December 24, 2015

The ghosts of Christmas Past

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It's a strange phenomenon, the power of Christmas Eve to resurrect memories so strongly and yet so randomly. As I listened to the firs...
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Saturday, December 12, 2015

Three snacks and out

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I found myself, in a procrastinating moment, leafing through a leaflet from the Co-op, a Christmas leaflet promising all manner of festive t...
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Friday, December 11, 2015

All we go down ...

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I was at a funeral yesterday, not as a mourner but as a provider of music, one of a quartet singing the Kontakion for the Departed at th...
Saturday, November 21, 2015

Dragons on Social Media

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Now here's a thing. I have an ambivalent attitude to Facebook. It shows in the fact that I very rarely post directly to it; I will sh...
Monday, November 02, 2015

Remembering on All Souls

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Holy Trinity Dunoon: All Souls This evening we remembered. We lit candles in front of the altar for family and friends lost. We conside...
Thursday, October 15, 2015

A Mass of Questions

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Was it wise to get me started again? Today I have a question. A question that returns to trouble me when I stray beyond my accustomed paths ...
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Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Planning or living?

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This blog post is an act of conscience, brought on by Kelvin's reminder of how much I've been neglecting my blog. So here's a w...
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Thursday, September 03, 2015

Washed up - a poem for today

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Washed up The children on the beach have no cares. Their garments lap upon the waves that brought them here. They are not playing - t...
Wednesday, September 02, 2015

The Education debate - a builder's take

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I was chatting to our builder yesterday about schools. It seemed to me that this successful tradesman, running the building firm that he inh...
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Friday, August 28, 2015

Women and men and trains - and Jeremy.

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I clocked Jeremy Corbyn's thought about women-only compartments on trains but didn't dwell on it until I read Kelvin's post and...
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Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Tea-parties and bigotry

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I've just been reading a most unedifying church magazine. It's called SATNav, and purports to help the good people of Ayr to navigat...
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Monday, August 24, 2015

No scones, no stereotypes

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I found myself thinking about Mission in church yesterday. I suspect something in the sermon triggered such thoughts, and the reflection ...
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Saturday, August 22, 2015

Proud to march with Pride

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I'm no novice when it comes to marches, gatherings, protests and the like - from joining in a CND march when I was 16, the day afte...
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Saturday, August 15, 2015

The Missing Link

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 Readers of this blog will know that I've been dabbling in my family tree - can one dabble in a tree? It was this photo that clinch...