Sunday 21 – Saturday 27 June 2015 So last blog week began midway through the Calpe retreat that happens every two years. I think I can honestly say this was the best of the four or five I have attended. So good for a number of reasons and I have tried to detail why in Read More…
Month: June 2015
15 things I loved about the Calpe retreat
Note these are not in priority order: Catching up with old friends particularly those who have been on this retreat before as well as the retreats that used to take place at Loyola Hall Meeting new people – getting to know them and hoping things go well for them plus that we meet again Evening Mass Read More…
Life is definitely better through sunglasses
Sun 14 – 20 June 2015 The main feature of last week was being on retreat in Calpe which happens every two years. It is actually the fourth or fifth time I have attended I think. Certainly comforting in that I know the place, routine and many people on it. But there are always differences (such Read More…
Just keep on buggering on
Sun 7 – Sat 13 June The title is a great quotation from Churchill, certainly an irascible old git at times but also a truly inspirational leader (and boy do we lack those these days). One of my other favourite quotations from him is ‘if you are going through hell then keep on going’. A Read More…
Ursula K. Le Guin
Sometimes I read a book and it is like a stone hitting the water and creating continuous ripples or a light going on that shows things in the darkness that no-one realised were there before. Ursula K. Le Guin’s ‘The Dispossessed’ has been one of those books. It is really about what is ostensibly two different cultures Read More…
The week Charles Kennedy died and Sepp Blatter resigned
Sun 31 May – Sat 6 June Oh well, back to measuring time by major events and particularly decent people going – I’m talking about Kennedy and definitely not Blatter. A good week gone including trips to Brighton and Stoke, the real start of summer in London, and some time completely on my own home Read More…
First Thursday of each month = Velvet Page Club
As the title says, every first Thursday of the month is the date for the meeting of the Velvet Page Club – an LGBT reading group that meets on the first floor of Waterstones in Piccadilly (London) at 7pm. I first attended about a year ago and have been intermittently since. Indeed last night was Read More…
I found out about a new hero – Helen Keller
Not at all abnormal but I picked up a secondhand book at a charity shop for 50p that has had an impact on me. ‘The Story of My Life’ by Helen Keller was written in 1903 and is effectively the first part of her autobiography detailing her life until her early twenties. I knew a Read More…