The leaves are turning, and so are the wee helicopter seeds that are falling from the trees (don’t ask me which trees – I’m a city girl) and it seems like a good time to talk about some of the things I like about autumn.
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Happy St George’s Day!
23 Apr
No, I’m not English – but then, neither was St George. Read my article on the Premier Christianity website to find out about George and what on earth he has to do with English nationalism and far-right marches.
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Unlucky for some
26 FebThis was going to be a post about how I’ve recently got into making historical clothing, but recent events have changed it into a post about niche superstitions.
Continue reading(Don’t) follow the instructions
30 Jan
Generally I am a fan of following the instructions. Whether it’s a dress pattern, recipe or flat-packed furniture, the instructions tend to be helpful. But not always. Here are a few instances where you’re better to ignore the instructions.
Continue readingThe course of pantoums
8 MayAt a community meal at my church the other night, someone read out a pantoum poem. It reminded me that I wrote a pantoum poem myself, back when I was in school, and I thought it was rather good. In fact, I still do, so I’m going to inflict it on you.
Continue readingThe plural of Bible
12 MarYes, the plural of Bible is Bibles (although “bible” in itself comes from the Greek word for “books”, which is a plural already). But the way of developing the plural of Bibles is apparently being a Christian for a long time.
Continue readingOutsmarted
15 Jul
If you’re a typical human being, you probably spend too much time staring at your smartphone. So do I. But a couple of weeks ago, my smartphone developed a fault and had to go in for repair. No one had a spare Android to lend me, so I thought I’d see how I coped without one.
Continue readingThe Imitation of Depression
9 JulI recently finished reading The Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis. I read it slowly, because was my bathroom book (sorry if that’s too much information, but it’s a great way to read important but not terribly gripping books) but also because it just wasn’t very good.
Continue readingTransports of joy
11 Apr
This week I’ve been staying in East Kilbride, guinea pig sitting, so I treated myself to a zonecard to make the rigmarole of travelling between Glasgow and EK less annoying. But the annoyingess of travel is very much in the eye of the traveller.
Continue readingAll about Easter
28 MarI’m just back from a lovely ‘holiday’ in Albania. I use the inverted commas because I did some work while I was out there for the video studio I used to work for, and then spent a day being a good daughter-in-law serving coffee and raki to visitors, and at the end of the my week there I got commissioned to write two articles on Easter themes.
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