Today is the shortest day in the northern hemisphere. The winter solstice takes place at 5.11 pm today.
Please have your gongs, whistles and drums at the ready for the moment.
Photo credit – Andreas Krappweis
6 responses to “101st thing”
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Congratulations on outdoing the Moderator of the CofS.
Now, like another Provost, will you get a wealthy woman to buy you a copy of this very expensive book? (That will not be me, by the way)
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Well well. What exalted company we keep! I’m still working on the camels ….
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….sinking other people’s yachts…. ???
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Interesting juxtaposition with Grayson Perry. Clearly the article writer has seen the St Mary’s dressing up box!
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remind me never to go sailing with you!
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The poet Thom Gunn put ‘cheap thrills’ under ‘Recreations’ in his entry. I have always wanted to put that in my CV but have never dared.
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Last night
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Transfiguration – Top Ten Reasons
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A question of sin
The trouble with sin, is that it creeps up on you unexpectedly. There I was doing the ironing, a virtuous task sure as anything. Then I ran out of water in the steam iron and the following sinful thought passed through my mind. “Hmm, having lost the little plastic water bottle that came with the…
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What have I been reading?
Oh, thank you for asking. I’ve recently finished Be Near Me by Andrew O’Hagan. It is a dark read, but a worthwhile one. Fr David arrives in an Ayrshire Roman Catholic parish, with unresolved issues from his past which unravel with a sadness, a poignancy and an apparent inevitability. It is the inevitability which is…
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