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Thanks
Posted Jul 4, 2004
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3847845.stm
I've only just seen this sad news.
Jennings brought me endless happy hours in my childhood, and the books can still reduce me to tears of laughter now. Nobody understood the workings of the eleven year old mind as well as Buckeridge.
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Moving
Posted Jun 26, 2004
Well, I'm off. I start my new job this week, so I'm about to move up to Sidmouth. I'm telling people in Dartmouth and Paignton that I'm moving to the Far East! It seems very strange; it's only about 30 miles away as the crow (or the seagull) flies, but I can't swim that well and it's nearer to twice that by road. That means that for someone like myself who relies on public transport I might as well be relocating to the moon.
As my new flat isn't ready yet, I'm going to be in temporary digs to start off with. I don't mind that, the company's paying for B&B and Evening Meal so I won't have to bother feeding myself! Unfortunately, though, it does mean that I will be offline until I'm able to transport my sparse collection of wordly goods up to my new pad. I'll be on the lookout for a reasonable Internet Cafe, of course, and I will be popping back to civilisation when time allows. In the meantime, though, I'm afraid you'll have to do with a drought of my fabled wit and wisdom.
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This is not news
Posted Jun 9, 2004
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/3785429.stm
Good.
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Latest reply: Jun 9, 2004
Good Luck, Queensgate!
Posted Jan 26, 2004
Four lads from Dartmouth are aiming to be the first four-man crew to row the Atlantic. Keep track of their progress here:
http://www.oceanregatta.com
Shaun in particular is one of my younger brothers' best friends, and they often rowed together and even shared the odd West of England championship.
Fingers crossed - and 'Boggle Boggle'!!!
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The Road to Isca
Posted Dec 19, 2003
Spent today Christmas shopping in Exeter. As usual, I failed to purchase all the items I needed.
When I'd finished I wandered down to the cathedral, and found that Evensong had just begun in the Lady Chapel. Rather than interupt the service by sneaking in past the celebrants, I sat outside the screen in the passage that runs around the cathedral (the Ambulatory, perhaps? - my church architecture terminology is a tad rusty). As regular readers know, I don't consider myself religious in any conventional sense, and I was brought up a Roman Catholic anyway, so it seemed somehow appropriate to remain an outsider.
The odd thing is that the service was so beautiful it nearly moved this cynical old sinner to tears. It wasn't so much the text, but the way the sung words somehow magnified and resonated in the soaring gothic vaults - how did our ancestors manage to create such wonderful accoustics? Indeed the vast, organic splendour of the building is totally beyond anything I've seen even attempted in modern architecture, and every hand-crafted stone of it seems soaked with centuries of faith. The feeling is simply, and literally, awesome.
So has old PF had a Damascine revelation? Is he suddenly turning to a long-neglected God? Well, probably not, but it has reminded me of one thing that we all forget for most of the time - mankind is sometimes capable of doing amazing, wonderful things. Maybe there's still a little hope for us all.
Merry Christmas to you all.
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