Mutterings - Feb 23

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. White House :: Log Cabin
2. Coffee break :: Biscuits!
3. Retirement :: Pension
4. Lipstick :: Red
5. Department :: Store
6. Blinds :: Venetian
7. Diploma :: Piano
8. Communication :: Line
9. Budget :: Project
10. Things :: aint wot they used to be!

Teaser Tusday - Feb 18

Teaser Tuesday
The rules are:

• Grab your current read.
• Let the book fall open to a random page.
• Share with us two (2) 'teaser' sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
• You also need to share the title and author of the book that you’re getting your 'teaser' from .. that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you've given!

A neon poodle prances across its sign for all eternity. It wears a little doggie bow tie.

Another teaser from David Mitchell's Number9Dream - I've nearly finished this now and I'm not sure that it's getting any clearer! First teaser of February - I've not been remembering! The poodle is, presumably, an illuminated street sign.

Mutterings - Feb 16

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Wine :: Bottle
2. Cooperate :: Partnership
3. Dropped :: Brush (no idea - maybe the next line?!)
4. Painter :: Easel
5. Binger :: Bonger (what's a binger?)
6. Knot :: Reef
7. Collar :: Clerical
8. Barefoot :: Trek
9. Town :: Gown
10. House :: Home

Monsieur Lazhar

Silkscreen showed Monsieur Lazhar last week - similar in styl to 'Etre et Avoir' from the point of view of primary schoolchildren - but here dealing with the death of a teacher and their handling of the emotional trauma with a new rather unconventional M Lazhar. A very powerful film which engages with wonderful performances by the children and you gradually realise that the pain of the children and the new teacher are one. Here's a review.

Nigeria and Anglican Mainstream

I was looking through some old blog entries here and came across this from 2007 when I quote a letter to the Church times from Anglican Mainstream about legislation against homosexuality in Nigeria:

Anglican leaders in Nigeria have been working closely to uphold human-rights issues in the proposed legislation on homosexuality.

I wonder how that's going? As you probably know that law has recently come into effect and Anglican Mainstream have been somewhat silent on the issue.

Mutterings - Feb 9

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Person :: Individual
2. Children :: of God
3. Tweet :: Succinct
4. Points :: Railway
5. Grill :: Barbeque
6. Traces :: Remains
7. Unsolved :: Mystery
8. Lines :: in the sand
9. Fourteen :: Quatorze (and thence Louis!)
10. Coincidence:: Funny

Mutterings - Feb 2

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Doorknob :: Broomstick
2. Arch :: Bridge
3. Clay :: Pot
4. Doves :: Flock
5. Bloom :: Bialistock
6. Curious :: Feature
7. Kissing :: Gate
8. Stomach :: Churn
9. Courtyard :: Paving
10. Shorts :: ..to ground