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A journey without destination
And so it begins ( again)
…Our hope just does not know when to quit. We are only human after all. In a spectacular denial of reason, despite all the accumulated knowledge of past failures, each year, stupid and wonderful, our rich pageant begins a new. We gather whilst we can at Kenilworth Road singing together our songs of hope, of life, […]
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Lady of the Mountain
August 24, 2012
O ROWAN tree, O rowan tree! thou’lt aye be dear to me! Intwined thou art wi’ mony ties o’ hame and infancy. Thy leaves were aye the first o’ spring, thy flowers the simmer’s pride; There was na sic a bonnie tree in a’ the country side. Carolina Oliphant It is late August on Dartmoor […]
Olympian
August 10, 2012
The motto of the London 2012 Olympic games is ‘inspire a generation’ Over the past fortnight these games have captivated the home nation, and there is little doubt that those three words will be fulfilled. Every medal, near miss, cheer, and tear, planting a wonderful seed within the minds of young people across the country, […]
Empyreal
July 28, 2012
I do not like flying. The very idea of leaving the safety of the ground fills me with terror. Perhaps, being born underneath the end of an airport runway did not help matters. Ingraining in my psyche, from an early age, an irrational fear of everything aviation related. Maybe Oscar Grieg would have changed my […]
Small things
July 14, 2012
“For each of our actions there are only consequences.” James Lovelock Today it rains and it has been this way for three months. It is cold too. Millions of singular raindrops combining into one great deluge that never seems to end. Of course, if you live in the UK, you will already know this. Know […]
Luton
June 30, 2012
Home is where one starts from. T.S Eliot I was always running back then. My arms and legs flailing around, feet thundering across broken paving stones, my heart jumping relentlessly up and down between my chest and mouth. Running, like the clappers, but never getting very far. For in truth the world is too big […]
Consider the ravens
June 16, 2012
“Consider the ravens. They neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them” Luke 12.24 Taking this advice, it is hard, in modern culture, to travel far past two dark thoughts about ravens. Both, like Jesus’ intonation to his disciples, placed upon the unfortunate bird by man. First, I […]
Oscar
June 2, 2012
“I am a Captain, but as they are ten a-penny, and I had a very undistinguished & brief career at the front ( I was shot down by Richthofen in January 1917 & POW till the middle of December 1918) I do not normally use the rank” Oscar Grieg, is not someone you will have […]
Que Sera Sera
May 21, 2012
How can thirty thousand people make so little noise? So many voices be lost within their own throats? Fading away, in one long meek line of soundless humanity, from the disaster zone of Wembley, seventy thousand shoes make no sound. Their world ending with a whimper. It is haunting, in the way that a house […]
Echoes of Jericho
May 5, 2012
When the lights go out darkness reigns. This is true. However, lights also come on. A fact important to remember. As someone much wiser than my self once put it, darkness is not the opposite of light, it is the absence of light. In which case, what is important is shining the light in the […]
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