A BLAST FROM THE PAST
REPOSTED
Sunday, 20 December 2015
ODDS and ENDS
Phew! That was a term that was! We broke up on Friday. Have I been busy? Or have I been busy? I know that I have been neglecting this blog - but I will do some much-needed catching up work on it over the holidays.
And just think ... only one more year to go until glorious retirement. On 31st December 2016 I shall be a free man with loads of time to concentrate on my career as a writer. And talking of my writing career the West Ruislip Pensioners Voice magazine did an interview with me over the October half term. It should be published on this blog soon
To other matters: the Canting Old Phony is back posting on the TES website. He can be found on the Personal Forum where many of the old lags from Opinion Forum have ended up. He is just as pompous, pretentious, self-righteous and boring as ever.
By the way, a great new poster has turned up on the TES website. Under the username of Johnny Bluenote he has posted some marvellous threads full of rapier-like wit and profound erudition. He has a wonderful, easy on the eye writing style with such a splendid lightness of touch. He has got away with two quite risqué threads: Have you ever paid for it? (which turns out to be about the TES hard copy magazine and Who's stuffing your turkey this Christmas? Tee! Hee! Hee! Hee!
Finally this year's Christmas card to all my readers:
The Nativity
Artist: Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni) (Italian, Florence (?) ca. 1370–1425 Florence (?))
Date: ca. 1406–10
Medium: Tempera on wood, gold ground
Dimensions: 8 3/4 x 12 1/4 in. (22.2 x 31.1 cm)
You seem to be uncharacteristically quiet about the present Church of England child abuse and cover up crisis Detterling.
ReplyDeleteWren Frobisher
I am busy working [unpaid, and for two days a week] as lay adviser and correspondence co-ordinator with a small group priests in our diocese who are supporting our bishop, Helen-Anne Hartley, who is, courageously, doing so much [a great deal of which doesn't get on tv or into the papers] to counter and root out the private school chaps-like-us Boys' Club of bishops which has done so much first to allow and then to cover up the cancer which is child sexual abuse in our church.
ReplyDeleteAs such I am far too busy to waste time responding to your childish needling, Gene, by posting my opinions on a blog that no-one reads and hence has no influence on anything.
And unlike you I believe in getting my hands dirty actually doing something rather than striking attitudes and barracking from the sidelines without actually moving a muscle to help. For all your windy posturing about child sexual abuse - wherever it happens - you have never got off your bloated arse and done a thing about it, have you? So crawl back under your stone, why don't you?
Interesting, isn't it, that the only bishop who told Welby and Cottrell that it was time to go, and who has been brave enough to take on the private school chaps-like-us Boys' Club of bishops [none of whom having had the guts to support her] is a woman - the kind of woman bishop whose elevation to the house of bishops you so virulently, nastily - but happily so fruitlessly - opposed. Better a woman bishop, it seems, when you want something done than a failed author too pissed half the time to find his own arse with both hands.
"For all your windy posturing about child sexual abuse - wherever it happens - you have never got off your bloated arse and done a thing about it, have you?"
ReplyDeleteOh! yes I have. At Oxford University I protested about the PIE - something you didn't do.
Gene