There’s a bloke out there who makes cheese. Cheddar, I believe. He has a website about cheese, and a webcam of a particular cheese, so you can watch in mature in real time. I read somewhere that there’s another bloke who logs on every night to see how the cheese is getting on. He finds …
Category archives: Writing
A healthy imagination
A group night out for our little church group, for a birthday. We went to see “Bridge to Terebithia“, admittedly a children’s film, but actually pretty moving. I’ll try to keep the plotline, in case you do want to go to see it, but it has lots to say about how kids deal with difficult …
Busy in the blogosphere
Rather aware I haven’t written for a while – and simultaneously, have discovered a few more friends who have their own blogs. Andrew Philip, a poet and reporter for the Scottish Parliament, who was part of the same linguistics department as me a few years ago, has a fairly frequent looking kind of blog, with …
(Making sense of) life and work
A new departure this week: sat and read the Church of Scotland regular publication for its members, Life and Work. As Dan is set to continue working with the Scottish Bible Society on their website, and had made reference to this magazine, thought I’d have a look. One particular comment struck me from a column …
Thinking space
Spring seems round the corner in Edinburgh this weekend. Sunshine two days in a row, birds singing, the garden less in shadow than before. The real excitement, however, is being able to see this from our new desk. A friend, O, who’s part of our church small group, came and fitted a very large wooden …