Tag: Scotland

  • A Moral Case for Independence

    (This post originally appeared in October 2013 but was lost when the server was hacked in 2015. This is a recovered version.) John Dear, the Jesuit peace activist, has made...

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  • The yam question

    My thanks to those brave few people who actually answered the yam survey. (For those who had no idea there was such a thing, please consult http://bit.ly/en05b4 and answer the...

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  • One day later

    Now that life has been rather stable for a while—we’ve been living in the same house for four years, Eleanor’s in school, and we haven’t had to negotiate burning barricades...

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  • eruptions

    Last week, Sunday 24 August, we had a gang of bairns round to test out the new trampoline. About mid-day on a hot day the shout went up: flying ants....

    By plants, Walks

  • Holi freezing heck!

    Okay: Bhavana had a great idea. Why shouldn’t the Anthropology Society, who are always up for a ritual, play Holi? The results speak for themself: see this, and this, and...

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