katielou

May 2007



variation on a theme

Monday, 28 May 2007 8:10 P GMT+01
People often seem a little confused about how I do what I do with a background like my background. It all seems pretty logical in small steps when it's explained, but I still think there are many who can't get their head around a medieval his
Category: work faith thinks

death is nothing at all

Sunday, 20 May 2007 3:32 P GMT+01
Someone who sent a card enclosed this wonderful Henry Scott Holland poem. I think it sits somewhere between the Christina Rosetti poem we chose for the funeral and the Dean's absence of presence = greater presence.
Category: faith

holmfirth anthem

Sunday, 20 May 2007 3:19 P GMT+01
This one's for you, Anna! On Friday I drove home, to retrieve Max from Mum before he thinks he lives there permanently. Mum was going out, so I went too. To HHS, where it was the spring concert. Well, I don't know. It wouldn't have been l

dommage

Sunday, 20 May 2007 2:53 P GMT+01
Surprised Paul hasn't blogged this, but maybe I'm keeping him too busy! I heard this report on the radio driving to work last Friday, it is indeed rather sad. I know he broke his vows and all, but really, what a shame. I wonder  who told
Category: faith

step back in time

Sunday, 20 May 2007 2:37 P GMT+01
Sage Chamber Choir sang the Ascension service at Brinkburn Priory on Thursday. A very beautiful place indeed. A little further north than we thought, a whole page of the mapbook nearer Scotland than was expected, but traffic was good to us, so we arr
Category: culture faith

déjà vu

Tuesday, 15 May 2007 8:17 P GMT+01
Oh dear. I listened with some trepidation to the accounton the radio news coming home that they have 'officially named as a suspect' a chap in the search for Madeleine McCann. That journalists have brought him to the attention of police after

open your laptops and begin..

Sunday, 13 May 2007 8:35 P GMT+01
Well well. A nicely articulated thought for the day for IT in academia. Certainly we should no longer be testing students ability to hand-write legibly for three hours, when we do not require it of them in the rest of life (and word processed essays
Category: work

social engineering

Sunday, 13 May 2007 3:16 P GMT+01
Would you live in an IKEA house? I pretty much do anyway, so having IKEA build the outside as well as the inside doesn't worry me. This article appeared in the Guardian before Easter, taken me a while to get around to it. I knew BoKlok were plann
Category: general