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My South African Heart - A Review of the book My Traitors Heart and our time in South Africa - Part

Saved on 19/11/2008

In retrospect after reading this post it would be better to say that these posts are more of a collection of thoughts from the book ‘My Traitor’s Heart’ as I don’t make comments systematic enough to warrant the title of review. This post has 3 parts, comments will be closed until...

My South African Heart - A Review of the book My Traitors Heart and our time in South Africa - Part

Music: 16 November

Saved on 18/11/2008

The morning service was relatively uneventful, though we did have an inversion of the two middle hymns.The tunes for the hymns were 'St. Columba', 'St. Magnus', 'Cardross', and 'Two Oaks'. I'll be perfectly honest, I really don't like the last two, though I've definitely sung worse.We sang Holst's...

Music: 16 November

Food Friday: Applesauce

Saved on 18/11/2008

I'm late. Oh, yes. But, I'm going to post anyway since I never know what day it is anymore anyway.As part of our farm delivery last week, we were given three British cooking apples. I decided to make apple turnovers from them. But, I wanted them to be a bit different. Instead of just stirring some...

Food Friday: Applesauce

Reasons I unsubscribed from your blog feed - explained

Saved on 18/11/2008

I wrote this post because I think it is useful to give some feedback now and again. I read plenty of blogs through Google reader, ( more info here on how to set that up) and although I don’t claim to have an authoritative knowledge on what makes a blog enjoyable to read, I [...]

Reasons I unsubscribed from your blog feed - explained

Album Review: Popup - A Time and a Place

Saved on 17/11/2008

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Album Review: Popup - A Time and a Place

Reasons I unsubscribed from your blog feed

Saved on 17/11/2008

1.  Your posts are too long, and require lots of prior knowledge to understand them. In short they are inaccessible. 2. You post your feed as a summary, so if I actually want to read your post I have to click through to your site, not cool. 3. You post too often.  The fact [...]

Reasons I unsubscribed from your blog feed

Sax Fest

Saved on 15/11/2008

This is festival for saxophones, don't get too excited :-)As I have mentioned before my course encourages us to get involved in local music projects, so my classmates and I have been helping out at the Sound Festival.This weekend was awesome: Saturday at the university which had a whole day of workshops...

Sax Fest

For the Clean look

Saved on 15/11/2008

There is a whole sub-culture around typography out there, lurking in art schools and design houses, but for the likes of you and me and our little design projects the best we can hope for is borrowing a few free fonts for our little outings into the world of design in the form of a [...]

For the Clean look

Burning Bush

Saved on 14/11/2008

  "The entire cosmos is one vast burning bush, permeated by the fire of the divine power and glory"Kallistos Ware, Through the Creation to the Creator. London: Friends of the Cantre, 1997, p. 9. Quoted in C. Southgate, The Groaning of Creation. Kentucky: WJKP, 2008, p. 113. HT: Theological...

Burning Bush

The Classical Connection

Saved on 13/11/2008

This is one of the little things that I get up to every week during term, it's loads of...

The Classical Connection

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