The glory days of disabled sportsmen and women are concluding this weekend. For the last eleven days we’ve had a chance to watch them competing for medals, as many watchers all over the world have not. Seemingly people fighting against other competitors as well as against the odds should be even more exciting to watch than the able-bodied Olympians. Recent…
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Quite unexpectedly I managed to go to the Far North on Friday. It was pretty risky affair, as I left the car park at 1:30pm, unusually late for me. Generally the hike was not complicated or particularly difficult till I reached the ridge leading directly to the summit of Conival – the wind was strong; it became dangerous on the…
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After being unable to go to the hills for several consecutive weeks I was quite desperate to do so. The forecast was not particularly encouraging, but I hoped for a rainless day. And actually it wasn’t a bad weather for walk: no rain and warm enough but not hot. But most of the time I was walking in the clouds…
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A friend of mine makes steaks for dinner, and I notice she is cutting off the edge of the steaks. I ask her about it, and she answers that her mother has always done this. So I ask her mother, and she replies that her mother has always done this too. Fortunately I can ask that elderly lady the same…
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‘This is intolerable language. How could anyone accept it?’ These words, taken from today’s gospel, describe the reaction of people listening to Jesus about eating his body and drinking his blood. This is not an accidental crowd of spectators; at least some of them made an effort to cross the lake and to find Jesus; these are people who care.…