Lumiere, Durham’s v. own festival of light starts tonight and goes on for four days. Looks like with the Festival of Culture bid they are going all out with this, even more so than last years excellent display. If you’re about enjoy….should be spectacular.
The blurb, for once I think, can be believed when it says:
LUMIERE [...]
Occassionally, very occassionally I get a glimpse of why my research might matter. No, I don’t mean in terms of it being a significant piece of work….I am not an academic and am more than realistic about why my limitations mean that my academic work may not get a wide hearing. In fact, from [...]
Josh is one of the students newly arrived in the city. He has been blogging about his experiences of the UK, amongst other things. The entry I’ve linked to relates to healthcare and his wifes confuddled reaction to being told how the NHS works, obviously linking into the healthcare debate within the US.
Ben, another student, [...]
I found myself yesterday in the position of preparing the talk for Methsoc. Normally we have an interesting speaker, but yesterday due to a bit of a falling apart on all fronts it turned into a DIY job. As the secretary who had volunteered to do the talk had a huge deadline for Monday I [...]
Later today I’m going to be on a panel with some other guys from the department, informally sharing a bit of our journeys and hopefully sharing some “good advice” with some new post-grads. The questions won’t necessarily be your usual though, the person putting the panel together has come up with some which really [...]
Last night I could be heard saying to people, “sorry could you just flick your wick up first” as they wandered along a fairly dimly lit wooded riverside path. No, things haven’t got that financially tight, rather this was all in the name of ecumenicalism. It was the annual candlelight procession to the cathedral organised [...]
Back in mid February when the weather was cold and I was still in culture shock from the move I started a programme at church called EDEV (Extending Discipleship Exploring Vocation). Having tried to use Google as my friend I have found out that there is relatively little information about EDEV on line that I [...]
Back in July last year I put up this blog post which discussed my sexuality and ended with this paragraph:
“I know I hold a position which cannot be justified, and that the secular is sensible enough not to find virtuous therefore, I can’t discuss it with them. The effect of this means I walk around [...]
Tuesday sees exactly a year since the move, but seeing as that’s the day I get back from Greenbelt I figured I’d do a bit of a reflexive entry today.
I’ve often referred to the whole move thing as being like a roller coaster ride, with all the ups and downs but I am beginning to [...]
Yesterday I wandered into town and was frustrated that the busy market place was being congested by Morris Men and those who stopped to watch them. Today, on the way home from church, there were no market stalls or Saturday shoppers to be negotiated and so Third Party and I stopped to “enjoy” a spot [...]