2022-05-25 21:26
The unveiling of her statue in Grantham at the weekend has shown that even in death, Margaret Thatcher retains her capacity to polarise opinion. Never someone to whom people could be indiffe… Read More
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2022-05-24 21:32
When did popular music become popular?
There were folk songs that people knew that were passed down from generation to generation, and there were the music hall songs from the Nineteenth Cen… Read More
2022-05-22 19:56
Arranging the CDs in the rack, I picked up an Adele’s 21.
In the the final track on the album, Someone Like You, her soulful voice expresses the angst of the jumbled emotions of the ly… Read More
2022-05-21 22:42
‘I have said these things to you while I am still with you.’ John 14:25
Professor Sean Freyne, the New Testament lecturer at Trinity College, Dublin used to divide the Gospel of… Read More
2022-05-19 20:37
After his poetry collection Wintering Out was published in 1972, a comment from Seamus Heaney on that violent and turbulent year was reported in the Cork Examiner, “If we winter this o… Read More
2022-05-18 21:04
It was not so much a bicycle, more an amalgam of bicycles, a frame from one, wheels from another, parts gathered from various places. Its improvised nature meant it was not as valued as much… Read More
2022-05-17 22:16
Since a Volvo V90 filled with box upon box of my stuff arrived from England on the May bank holiday Monday, I have been finding a place for everything.
Hanging a picture of Bright Parish chu… Read More
2022-05-16 21:12
The red Dansette is safely installed. All I need now is a rack for my many dozens of 7″ singles.
Some of the singles could be placed in a bag and taken to a charity shop. I would have… Read More
2022-05-15 17:05
I am very disappointed.
International Talk Like a Pirate Day which falls in September each year is one of my favourite annual observances. However, last week National Geographic magazi… Read More
2022-05-14 18:55
“By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another” John 13:35
The letters of the word “glory” provide a useful acrostic to help… Read More
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