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It's poetry, Jim, but not as we know it!

Somebody recently told me she had put a completely different set of words (appropriate ones, I hope!) to a song we used, as we sang it. I am well aware of alternative renderings of some Christmas carols, having worked with school students all my life; sometimes they are funny, most times not.rnWords of songs can give us bees in our bonnets...
Birdhouse In My Soul

There are only so many different notes in an octave.  Seven white ones and five black.  There are only so many combinations of notes.  Tunes, i think they're called.  And the net result is not just that part of Springsteen's latest work We Look After Our Own is reminiscent of Change by the Lightning Seeds, but th...
And There's More...

That was Roy Carson’s catchphrase, and it could easily have been the catchphrase of Jesus too.  In particular, he tells his disciples in John 16:12 that “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear.  But when the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all truth.”rnI wonder how frustrating i...
Crumbs!

Communion bread here is generally a slice from a loaf of Warburton’s (other loaves are available).  When I first arrived, one of my wardens would have ready-chopped the slice into perfect small squares, and I wondered at the origin of this behaviour.  Had a previous rector been a little weak of sinew and unable to break bread...
My LIfe Is Like A Drag Queen's Dressing Room...

A blog or two ago I was thinking about image troubles.  This Monday it almost came home to roost.rnrnYou need to bear in mind the following:rnrn1) Graham had been cutting it fine coming to church on Sunday evening so he'd left a bottle of sherry in the vestry to save having to open the safe.rnrn2) I was very very fatigued and being vert...