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Saturday, December 27, 2014

Snow for Christmas

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Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day in Rome for festivities with the Rome Traddigentsia: Christmas Eve dinner in a fancy-schmancy ...
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Friday, December 19, 2014

My imaginary Youtube cooking show

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Every morning I fall for it. The siren song of the internet. I rationalise it by likening it to reading the morning paper over my coffee or ...
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Thursday, December 18, 2014

“They say Aslan is on the move; perhaps he has already landed”

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People are asking me, why now? Why this sudden descent into the absurdities of the 70s for the Church? Why are the ageing "progressiv...
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Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Wild remedies

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Got a cold? So, bought a nice "Encyclopedia of medicinal herbs" the other day, and was reading it while developing my lovely n...

Books

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Took a few hours last night and opened the book boxes. Since one of the book cases is in the kitchen at the moment, holding up my dishes, I ...
Saturday, December 13, 2014

It's wrong to tell lies

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It's really just the proportions... Why do people think it's OK to casually lie to children, as though they don't count as p...
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Thursday, December 04, 2014

Firewood guy came!

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Huh. So that's what 6700 kilos of wood looks like. Good to know. And another one for my "people aren't so bad" files. Th...
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Wednesday, December 03, 2014

Welcome to Nuchurch

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...and have a nice day. After many years, on the rare (and always penitential) occasions when I am stuck going to the NO, while I'm ...
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Monday, December 01, 2014

Why not sin?

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How if they have called him, unbelieving, and he has come? I was just doing a thing on a new EU "ethics" document and seeing s...
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Wednesday, November 26, 2014

New glasses!

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OK, the Enoteca Granaro del Monte has just officially become my favourite place to work in town (where they are currently playing a soft lo...