The door bell in the parish house in Elgin had quite a delicate gong, hardly audible in my flat when the radio or music was playing. A couple of times I didn’t manage to meet people who had made an appointment with me; it happened for one silly reason: I couldn’t hear the doorbell. Personally I hate failing people I…
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A week ago I replaced my tyres with winter ones. It cost me a small fortune, but I did it being certain that was cheaper to do that than replace a car after a possible crash. Since then the temperature has hardly dropped below 10 degrees Celsius. Well, actually it has, but in Elgin and Inverness, not here. It seems…
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Some time ago I watched a documentary about a social experiment. Residents in a street somewhere in England agreed to live for six weeks without the services provided by their local council. They were handed back their council tax for that period of time. It was up to them how to use the money. Their first surprise came with the…
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Last autumn a friend of mine invited me to her wedding that would take place in August this year in Poland. I had been struggling with my overweight problem, getting dangerously close to obesity, sadly without any particular success. So I thought the date of the wedding would be a very good reference point and additional motivation to losing weight.…
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Last year’s visit of Pope Benedict to Britain was for many a surprisingly joyful and uplifting event. To some extent it revived the faith, strengthening Catholics who live in the UK. One of the many results of his visit was the renewal of the idea of meat-less Fridays. This is now the recommended practise in England and Wales. There is…