Tuesday, 31 December 2019

Christmas Reflections III - Even angels can learn...

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There was stuff going on that first Christmas that was normal and ordinary, and then there was the other stuff. The stuff that was neither...
Saturday, 28 December 2019

Christmas Reflections II – Rug weaving for beginners

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I know nothing about weaving patterned rugs. It’s a pity, because this may be a dying art. They don’t seem to be as popular as they used t...
Monday, 23 December 2019

Christmas Reflections I – 1619 and all that…..

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The year 1619 was a long time ago. Neither you nor I were around. It is well beyond living memory or even folk memory (if there is such a ...
Sunday, 1 September 2019

What’s all this about more debate?

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Here’s where my “remain” friends (and most of my friends voted remain) and me probably part company. I suspect most of them have been splu...
Sunday, 18 August 2019

Don't ask me how I'm feeling

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Full disclosure – I’m a Scot. We have a reputation for being a dour, miserable lot. Some argue that this explains why we took to Calvinism...
Sunday, 21 July 2019

What an odd thing to do on a Saturday night…

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Here I was sitting in a tent on a Saturday night. Perhaps in and of itself not that odd I’ll grant. But it was a rather large tent, holdin...
Sunday, 16 June 2019

Cold fusion and hot money

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It turns out that we’ve just passed the 30 th anniversary of the announcement of the most revolutionary of scientific discoveries. On 23 ...