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Matthew 5 in photos and stitching

Posted in Photos, Religion, Words, christianity, tagged , , , , , , , on July 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

My mum came to visit yesterday and we went to Rochester Cathedral. The artwork in the picture is about Matthew 5. You can’t really see it on the photo, but each of the panels has a verse from Matthew, chapter 5 from The Message version of the Bible, stitched into it. It took me a [...]

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Voices

Posted in Blogging, NaBlPoMo May2008, Words, singing, tagged , , , on May 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Following the success of the annual National Blog Posting Month, Eden, the organiser of this delightful thing, has decided to make every month a blog posting month, and I, in my madness, have decided to attempt to write a blog post every day in May. To give people some help, or possibly make things more difficult, Eden has suggested [...]

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Sardines

Posted in Library of Doom, Travels, Words on September 18, 2007 | 2 Comments »

The passengers on the 07.41 service to Dover Priory were playing sardines yesterday. They do this most days, Monday to Friday, at least during term time. The train is very over-crowded, full of commuters, students and school children all making their own variety of noise or trying to stay quiet and unnoticed, blocking out the rest [...]

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A distinct lack of communication

Posted in Blogging, Library of Doom, Words on June 26, 2007 | 7 Comments »

Only connect…
(E.M. Forster, Howards End)
Today, in the Library of Doom, we had a conversation about people’s inability to communicate. The/my/other people’s inability to communicate effectively has long been a concern of mine. I had been thinking about it recently, and was prompted to write this post by the Singing Librarian’s comments in his post about miscommunication at the [...]

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Ranting and swearing

Posted in Library of Doom, Words on March 31, 2007 | 3 Comments »

I’ve never been someone who swears a lot. I was brought up to think that it’s rude, unpleasant and unnecessary, and I still hold to that. I don’t like hearing other people swear, most of the time, although I do have the odd moment when for some strange reason I find it amusing. Nowadays, I [...]

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Words beginning with W…

Posted in Library of Doom, Musings, Words on February 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

…include, in no particular order: winding (as in winding up*, not winding as in punching someone in the stomach), wound (winding completed), wound (hurt), was, wasn’t, wishing, want, wearing, whinging, whining, waiting, worry, who, what, why, when, which, writing, way, worst, will, well, work, wonderful, and (my favourite) weird.
Today, I was wound up by my colleagues. This was not [...]

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