Dancing Beastie

In my previous post I mentioned the Easter Vigil and the lighting of the new light. A mere, ahem, two and half months after I wrote that, here we are at Easter Day. There are sheep in the field...

https://dancingbeastie.wordpress.com/2017/04/16/happy-eastertide/

  The light. It’s something I forget every year, this annual new year gift: the pale, slanting sunlight which January brings as the days begin to lengthen. The new light washing through old wi...

https://dancingbeastie.wordpress.com/2017/01/30/a-word-for-the-year/

With the possible exception of Andy Murray – now SIR Andy, with a knighthood in the New Year’s Honours List to cap a year of outstanding sporting achievements – I would guess that most of u...

https://dancingbeastie.wordpress.com/2017/01/02/new-light/

Well, that blogging hiatus was a leeetle longer than I intended. After seven years (!) of blogging, it seems that I needed a seven month sabbatical. I haven’t forgotten the fellowship I found ...

https://dancingbeastie.wordpress.com/2016/12/23/merry-christmas/

Hello, I’m still here! How have you been all this time? It’s Saturday lunchtime  and I’m sitting in my local café with my family, on my laptop. Don’t you just hate it when people use t...

https://dancingbeastie.wordpress.com/2016/05/28/slow-living-and-super-slow-broadband/

May already: although it doesn’t feel like it yet. A few warm, sunny days towards the end of April were balm to the soul – and to the garden, which put on a growth spurt (mostly of nettles)....

https://dancingbeastie.wordpress.com/2016/05/03/rough-winds-do-shake/

During my lengthy silence here, the seasons have moved on at last. Spring is indubitably springing. In the fields, the new grass is grown enough for the cows to have been put out to pasture a fe...

https://dancingbeastie.wordpress.com/2016/04/12/spring-forward/

Hello, how’s your winter going so far? Are you as fed up of the weather as I am? Rain, snow and storms in a Scottish winter are not news. They are just a Scottish winter. But torrential rain, r...

https://dancingbeastie.wordpress.com/2016/02/01/and-on-it-goes/

What a relief: the snow which I was expecting in early December has finally reached us! I know that snow is seen by plenty of people as an inconvenience but honestly, after the last month, anythi...

https://dancingbeastie.wordpress.com/2016/01/14/blue-sky-thinking/

In the rush of Christmas preparations, a moment of stillness. If you click on the linked words below, you will have the chance to listen to the choir of King’s College, Cambridge singing Morten...

https://dancingbeastie.wordpress.com/2015/12/24/christmas-eve/