Tag Archives: life

My top albums 2021

Posted on 19/12/2021 by alasdairflett

2021 got off to a terrible start with Tier 4 restrictions imposed in Glasgow for the best part of four months. Things began to revive in April and by May I had finally met the people on my course for … Continue reading →

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Summer’s End

Posted on 19/09/2021 by alasdairflett

I’ve spent the summer in a cathedral, talking about cathedrals. But why is it a cathedral when there’s no bishop and it’s a place for him to sit? Yes, you’re right, it’s Presbyterian now. Church of Scotland since 1560, though … Continue reading →

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Almost two years, and three King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard albums later

Posted on 19/06/2021 by alasdairflett

I have passed year one of two of my condensed law degree at Strathclyde. That was Wednesday’s news, delivered to the mobile app and received during lunch break at Glasgow Cathedral, with breakdowns of each exam. One annum’s study hasn’t … Continue reading →

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Money is a Memory

Posted on 02/06/2020 by alasdairflett

Last night we were talking about the tin mine at Warbeth. That and the problem geology posed to religion in the 19th century. I thought I ought to have included the mining operation in my Bronze Age spiel for the … Continue reading →

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General Knowledge

Posted on 21/05/2020 by alasdairflett

It’s May. At the end of the month, we could be heading into phase one of lifting lockdown. Had it not been for Coronavirus, the tourist season would be ramping up in Orkney and I’d be fulltime Skara Brae. As … Continue reading →

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Charles

Posted on 09/04/2020 by alasdairflett

Charles was the first to move in at Hermit’s Croft student accommodation that fateful Saturday in September. His buzz cut look and austere apparel was not the combination of flowing locks and trim overcoats I would become used to over … Continue reading →

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Gray’s Gauntlet

Posted on 29/03/2020 by alasdairflett

“At least now there is something we all have in abundance – time” – one of the truisms of the Corona era. But time is what we’re fighting for now; the Quarry’s been brought in to buy it, to put … Continue reading →

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Mid-March Musings

Posted on 15/03/2020 by alasdairflett

I am now a qualified lifeguard. Well, more accurately, I have a lifeguard qualification. I am not currently “practising” as a lifeguard, not yet being paid to guard life as it were. In my last post, I used the term … Continue reading →

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Toot-toot-toot! Lifeguard going in!

Posted on 20/02/2020 by alasdairflett

The year 2020 is in and I am reaching the end of my twenty third on this planet. Will Taylor Swift ever speak to me in the same way? I think at this stage I should firmly be considered an … Continue reading →

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2019 in retrospect

Posted on 01/01/2020 by alasdairflett

In January work began in earnest on my German dissertation. I was comparing the 1950s poetry of two of East Germany’s leading literary figures: Bertolt Brecht and Heiner Müller. The latter had been charged with unoriginality in contemporary criticism of … Continue reading →

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