Yearly Archives: 2007

usual apologies

Posted on March 14, 2007 by acb

Looking back down the page, I notice that the entries here have been increasingly trivial. This is, I know, my fault. I have added at the bottom of the recent posts listing a feed to my more serious pieces on … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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More nose news

Posted on March 12, 2007 by acb

You will all, I hope, be as glad as I am to hear that the doctors in Växsjö have managed to sew back on the nose tip and ear of the Dutch lorry driver who had them bitten off last … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Better than Crufts

Posted on March 9, 2007 by acb

The venerable Dr Clifford Longley who was religious affairs editor of the Times for twenty years, has let rip at his successor, a Ms Gledhill, who has been doing the job ever since, in the letters page of the Catholic … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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I should be working but

Posted on March 9, 2007 by acb

I cannot resist a story in Dagens Nyheter about a fight in a Dutch lorry which was parked in Växsjö, a small and not overwhelmingly interesting town in Småland, a large and not overwhelmingly interesting region of southern Sweden. In … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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HIgh water

Posted on March 7, 2007 by acb

It really has been a filthy wet winter. I was down by the Cam yesterday and the little river, which two years ago in March looked like this looked instead like this These are, as near as I can manage, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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String theory

Posted on March 7, 2007 by acb

I threw away the palm pilot this morning. It still worked if I took it to bits every six weeks and reassembled it, a voodoo which restored the touch screen to touch sensitivity, but I have just got a new … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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The Rabbit that ate the moon

Posted on March 4, 2007 by acb

Some of you may have wondered what happened to the moon last night. Materialists claim that it was all a result of cosmic mechanics — a clear instance of bias, typical of the BBC. But last night, out on Hadstock … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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A small thought about Rowan Williams

Posted on February 27, 2007 by acb

The first conversation I ever had with him, he seemed nostalgic for the Orthodox church. He was, as a young man, attracted to Catholicism. Now he believes in the Anglican Communion: he has told the synod that he cannot give … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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That Gledhill sensation

Posted on February 26, 2007 by acb

Monday morning and the Times hasn’t splashed with the news that Jesus’ body has been found in Israel. So perhaps they have learned something. It is, on the other hand, the lead item in Ruth Gledhill’s blog. I see also … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Small news item

Posted on February 25, 2007 by acb

Tom Butler calls for the dissolution of the Anglican Communion (and I am rude about sundry primates) in this World Service programme. Bloody Realplayer, I’m afraid. Shortwave listeners can probably get it on their real radios some time today, but … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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