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  • The Past Tense

    Sometimes museums are terribly annoying. I found myself getting all worked up about this thurible.

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    Well, It wasn’t exactly the thurible that got me worked up but the card next to it.

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    The caption uses the past tense. “Censors were used…”

    Censors are used. It somehow felt so frustrating to look at an object that I could pick up and use in my daily work and which seemed to me to be in as good a state as when it was first made and yet see the caption speaking about the use as being something in the past.

    As I looked around the same gallery, all the references to anything liturgical were expressed in the same way:

    “Music was important in the Christian liturgy…”

    There’s no was about it.

8 responses to “How to Cook Moose”

  1. Jaye Richards-Hill Avatar
    Jaye Richards-Hill

    And this is all in Maryhill? There will be great wailing and gnashing of teeth in Newton Mearns and Giffnock when the news gets out..

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  2. Zebadee Avatar
    Zebadee

    At our local Lidl we also have quail as well as the other items you mention

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    1. kelvin Avatar
      kelvin

      Quail here too. Quail eggs from Waitrose though, not yet Lidl.

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  3. Kimberly Avatar
    Kimberly

    West Enders eat moose. South Siders eat Wholefoods. I know where I’d rather be.

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    1. kelvin Avatar
      kelvin

      I’m not at all sure that any shop selling a few nuts and bits and bobs of fresh veg on either side of the river can be as impressive as Moose in Maryhill.

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  4. Zebadee Avatar
    Zebadee

    Does the Maryhill Lidl also offer Canadian Lobster? Not that I am bragging but the needy of the Rubarb Triangle need some joy in their lives and our Lidl is meeting this need

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  5. Kelvin Avatar
    Kelvin

    Yes, lobster is on offer in Maryhill.

    I choose not to crow about lobster for it comes from the sea and consequently should not be eaten.

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    1. Margaret of the Sea of Galilee Avatar
      Margaret of the Sea of Galilee

      The kashrut/OT problem is the lack of fins and scales, not the sea per se.

      Reply

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