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Someone has started a Wikipedia entry on me. I’m trying to follow the convention that you don’t edit the entry about yourself. Not easy. Do fill in the blanks.Two weeks off blogging is in order I think. Back soon. Comment moderation on until I get back.

LP asked for a cat pic on Sunday evening. Thus, madam appears on the photoblog: http://photoblog.thurible.net/?p=193I told you she was trouble. The subtext to the picture is that I’m about to take her, first to the Vet and then to Cat Barlinnie. She was not impressed by either. Not even when the assistant at the…

Yesterday was the first day of choir term and it was great to have them back.Who would have guessed that I would get so much nourishment from Evensong? I certainly wouldn’t have done before coming here. No doubt it helps to be singing it with Scotland’s premier church choir but even during the summer when…

Tried this quiz got this result… You scored as Postmodernist. Postmodernism is the belief in complete open interpretation. You see the universe as a collection of information with varying ways of putting it together. There is no absolute truth for you; even the most hardened facts are open to interpretation. Meaning relies on context and…

To Govan Corps of the Salvation Army last night for the installation of their new Chief Secretary, Lieut-Col Bill Cochrane. Apart from a single family funeral, it is I think, the first time that I’ve been back to Salvation Army since I left it at the age of 16 or so. Last night’s visit was…

"Kelvin, notwithstanding the fact that I know that you dance around the flat with your cat doing Dusty Springfield numbers together, people do find you scary."I mean, really! 

Oh, what a disturbing set of art installations made up the Ron Mueck show in Edinburgh. A large in your face baby lying on the floor, a teenager who looked like she was 58 and miserable, a man in a boat which was clearly taking him no-where and two sour biddies having a gossip. The…

Oh yes, and I nearly forgot. I saw a brilliant flash of blue darting over the River Kelvin yesterday. The sight of a glorious kingfisher. The kind of sight that makes you so glad you live in the city.

To Mother India Cafe yesterday for lunch with E. He does have a way with a curry menu.Then to Kelvingrove again. Still gloriously packed with people, many of whom had children with them. It is astonishing to make such a success from a object focussed city museum. I was wondering whether it will calm down…