Leaving Grenoble For Good Friday evening we had a Tenebrae service in the smaller chapel in the Centre St Marc. About twenty people came, for a service largely put together by David Bailey. It was a sober, thoughtful time in the semi-darkness, a selection of short readings and music culminating with Allegri’s Miserere. On SaturdayContinue reading “Through a glass darkly – 122”
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Grenoble Our time here in Grenoble is already drawing to a close. Susie returns to Edinburgh later this week, on Thursday morning. Craig and the girls will arrive in Edinburgh late on [Good] Friday, in time for the memorial event for Craig’s sister, Linsey, which will be held over in Fife on Saturday afternoon. IContinue reading “Through a glass darkly – 121”
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Grenoble We have been in Grenoble for two weeks. Grenoble is a most attractive city in south east France, at the foot of the French Alps, where the river Drac joins the Isère. It is surrounded by three glorious massifs, and is closer to mountains than any city in Europe, with the possible exception ofContinue reading “Through a glass darkly – 120”
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[un]Pop-Cons Tories want war chalked on the brickwork of a railway bridge is my first ‘political’ memory. The bridge was opposite Southfields station on the London Underground. It was probably the 1950 election. And the war reference may [or may not] have related to Korea. That memory is triggered by the launch of a newContinue reading “Through a glass darkly – 119”
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2B or not 2B ? We got home from Chantilly, but only just. Air France asked us to check in the day before we left, and download our boarding passes. Their website told us to scan our passports and a QR code. Which I couldn’t do. I am old enough to think that scanning isContinue reading “Through a glass darkly – 118”
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A day in Paris A day in Paris always seems like a journey into the past. This was my first visit since I went down to take some photos for Joanna almost exactly a year ago. On Thursday Susie and I went down from Chantilly for the day to meet up with Craig and theContinue reading “Through a glass darkly – 117”
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Moby Dick It sounds like rhyming slang ! But it isn’t, as far as I know. [Although moby is used in some circles to mean enormous.]About ten years ago I read somewhere that Moby Dick was the great American novel. So I bought a copy at the OXFAM bookshop on South Clerk Street, where IContinue reading “Through a glass darkly – 116”
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Advent It is Advent again. One of my favourite times of year. In church terms it is a time for looking back, to the Incarnation, the birth of Jesus Christ; but also for looking forward to the Eschaton, the Last Days. to Christ’s return. It is a season of anticipation, and a season of waiting.Continue reading “Through a glass darkly – 115”
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Anti-Fascism in the English Public Schools 1933-’39 “ Often enough the public school system is attacked from the outside, but it is surely remarkable to find a boy of fifteen launching a critical magazine to mend the faults of his own and other schools … It will, I am assured, openly champion the forces ofContinue reading “Through a glass darkly – 114”
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60 years ago: the killing of President Kennedy There was a programme on tv a few days ago about the shooting of President Kennedy. Which happened in Dallas, Texas, on November 22nd, 1963, exactly 60 years ago today. The official story is that Kennedy was shot by a lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald, a 24-yearContinue reading “Through a glass darkly – 113”
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