This is a list of blogs posted since starting out in March 2020, at the start of lockdown.
It is more for my benefit than anyone else’s; in case I start to write the same thing again. {Elderly vicars have been known to repeat themselves !]
NB The first five blogs were not numbered.
[00] Getting Started; Retired vicar [b]logs on March 2020
[00] Gratitude and Desert Places March 2020
[1] Peter Frankopan: The Silk Roads March 2020
[2] Walking round Arthur’s Seat, Edinburgh March 2020
[3] Turkey; and some books on Turkey April 2020
4 Easter reflexions; Denise Inge: A Tour of Bones Easter Saturday 2020
5 Bouquets and Brickbats in Lock-Down April 2020
6 Tim Keller: Walking with God through Pain & Suffering May 2020
7 Spotlight on dark happenings; Clerical abuse May 2020
8 The missing centuries; the later Middle Ages May 2020
9 Postcards from Normandy May 2020
10 Life in lock-down; Worrying things June 2020
11 Marion Lochhead: The Episcopal Church in Scotland June 2020
12 Jûrgen Moltmann: Theology of Hope July 2020
13 Venice; and Donna Leon’s Venice July 2020
14 Out to lunch: a wish list in lock-down July 2020
15 Being Seventy Five July 2020
16 Albert Camus: The Plague [La Peste] July 2020
17 E.L.Woodward: History of England July 2020
18 John le Carré August 2020
19 Blustering Boris August 2020
20 Theodore Zeldin: France, 1848-1945 August 2020
21 Going North: looking back at 1974 September 2020
22 Alistair Horne: The Fall of Paris: Siege & Commune September 2020
23 Going North: to Inverness and Sutherland September 2020
24 Why do so many evangelicals vote for Trump ? October 2020
25 Gordon Ogilvie, RIP October 2020
26 David Smith: Stumbling towards Zion October 2020
27 The smell of corruption October 2020
28 General Edward Spears: The Fall of France November 2020
29 Preachers: Colin Bennetts; Denis Lennon November 2020
30 Bruce Clark: Twice a Stranger November 2020
31 Marina Warner: The cult of the Virgin Mary December 2020
32 Mountains; Eric Shipton and Bill Tilman December 2020
33 Philip Jenkins: The lost history of Christianity December 2020
34 Looking Forward, Looking Back January 2021
35 Lamin Sanneh: Whose religion is Christianity ? January 2021
36 James Joll: The Second International January 2021
37 Fifty Years Ago: Pergamon Press and Robert Maxwell January 2021
38 James Joll: The Anarchists February 2021
39 Mike Davis: Planet of Slums February 2021
40 David Abulafia: The Mediterranean February 2021
41 Working for George Allen and Unwin February 2021
42 Home front; Brexit; Levelling up March 2021
43 The Silver Jubilee of King George V March 2021
44 Jürgen Moltmann: The Crucified God March 2021
45 The Christmas Truce 1914 March 2021
46 The Water of Leith April 2021
47 Hans Küng: On being a Christian April 2021
48 Opening Up; out and about from Edinburgh April 2021
49 The great all-rounder – C.B. Fry May 2021
50 The business of safeguarding May 2021
51 Letter from Leurbost; Hans Kung: Why Priests ? June 2021
52 Hebridean Diary June 2021
53 Boris is off; Per Lagerkvist: Barabbas July 2021
54 Abroad; to France in 1961 August 2021
55 Home in Edinburgh; a walk round Loch Leven August 2021
56 Herbert McCabe: Love, Law, and language September 2021
57 Monasteries and Retreat Houses September 2021
58 Sticky wicket in Yorkshire; Owen Paterson, MP December 2021
59 Opening Up; visiting family; Maredsous 2021 December 2021
60 Kiev December 2021
61 Kiev Calling – 2 December 2021
62 Snow comes to Kyiv Christmas Day 2021
63 Christmas in Kyiv January 2022
64 Three days in Lviv January 2022
65 Old St Paul’s; John Cornwell: Seminary Boy January 2022
66 The Searchers February 2022
67 Paul Fussell: The Boys’ Crusade February 2022
68 Anne Applebaum: Red Famine March 2022
69 Walking with Alpacas March 2022
70 Robert MacFarlane: The Old Ways April 2022
71 Richard Holloway April 2022
72 Passion Week; Palm Sunday April 2022
73 Timothy Snyder: Bloodlands April 2022
74 A gloomy few months; Keeping Mum May 2022
75 Family matters; Peter’s funeral May 2022
76 Montebourg; a Normandy holiday June 2022
77 Up the West Coast July 2022
78 Swimming; writers and swimming pools July 2022
79 The Vercors July 2022
80 State of the Nation; Sunak v. Truss August 2022
81 Salut de Chantilly; More bad news September 2022
82 A mini-break in Laon; the Chemin des Dames September 2022
83 East Street, West Street; Silverview October 2022
84 The Briefing; Sid Fox, Bomber Pilot October 2022
85 Joanna McDonald November 2022
86 Maredsous; Remembering the future December 2022
87 A day out in Paris December 2022
88 In-between times; marking time in Bucks and Oxon January 2023
89 Don McCullin January 2023
90 Joanna McDonald: funeral address February 2023
91 A day out in Amiens February 2023
92 Coming home; A day out in Berwick February 2023
93 A walk along the Western Way March 2023
94 In black and white Jesse Owen and Joe Louis April 2023
95 Passion Week; Ich habe angst Maundy Thursday 2023
96 Ankara April 2023
97 Anitkabir; Election time in Turkey April 2023
98 A day out in Konya April 2023
99 Hitching to Istanbul; the summer of ’64 April 2023
100 Back to Istanbul; Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul May 2023
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