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Archive for June, 2007
keep your coins, I want change
Posted in life, musings, politics, quotes, theology on June 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »
dissertation update
Posted in emerging churches, life, musings, theology on June 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
My dissertation appears to have developed a life, a will and perhaps even a soul of its own. It is inherent in research that you find yourself discovering things that you never imagined could be found, and that is definitely part of the fun and motivation for me. But, my dissertation research has not only [...]
Le Grand Content
Posted in life, musings on June 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This is a truly awesome animation, picking apart life’s potential for utter meaninglessness. I wish I was that smart.
Go watch.
The End is Nigh…
Posted in life on June 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
of this series of Doctor Who – I’ve just noticed that the BBC’s updated the Doctor Who site for this week, not that it really says anything, we’ll just have to wait to Saturday to find out what a paradox machine is, and of course, how Martha’s going to save the day.
Returning to Edinburgh
Posted in Scottish, life, musings on June 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I am back in Edinburgh – I’ll be living here hopefully the whole summer to get my dissertation written.
It’s been a bit weird moving back up, especially as I’ve had to throw myself into researching full time. But, to my surprise, the thing I’ve noticed the most since I’ve been back are peoples’ accents. I [...]
Ultimate
Posted in life, musings on June 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It has been an ultimate (frisbee) weekend. On Saturday and Sunday I was playing for the ‘tall blacks’ in the Durham Hat – a tournament where the teams are picked out of a hat. We lost all our matches on the first day, but won them all convincingly on the second day. We blame the [...]
I do not want to be a monk… (2)
Posted in musings on June 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
because I don’t think I could stand the contrast.
Monks at Ampleforth do a variety of things, including runnng Ampleforth College, a senior boarding school which sits beside the Abbey. Parts of the school are literally connected to the Abbey, and consequently the cloisters, and all the monks’ accommodation.
The thing is, though, that Ampleforth College isn’t [...]
Abolishing tuition fees
Posted in Scottish, politics on June 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Scottish executive has announced that it is going to abolish tutition fees in Scotland – technically the scheme is called the ‘graduate endowment’, and works in the same way as the English ‘top up fees’, althought the fee is set at £2,289 for scottish students, a far cry from the £9000 in England.
I have [...]
I do not want to be a monk… (1)
Posted in musings, theology on June 12, 2007 | 2 Comments »
… but it was fun hanging out with them for the weekend.
I got the chance to go with some of my catholic friends on retreat this weekend. We went to Ampleforth Abbey, a benedictine community. It was a seriously strange experience, but also a wonderful one.
One of the things I realised over the weekend is [...]
bridge tolls
Posted in Scottish, politics on June 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
As England prepares to introduce road pricing, I watched BBC parliament yesterday as the Scottish Parliament voted to abolish tolls on the Forth and Tay bridges. Broadly speaking, I’m in favour of abolishing the tolls, but it was quite exciting watching the debate live for something which will have imminent tangible consequences for me.
