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  Posts From the Pasts - 20th November 2014 Three things have moved me to resurrect this blog today which has not been posted on since February this year. It's not that I have not been "moved" (insert as appropriate -  shocked, angry, happy, joyful,  thankful, grateful, upset, furious, insensed  ) for the last 9 months because believe me, I have. But the rapidly diminishing brain cells have often prevented me writing it down.  The other blogs / pages that I post are specific to a theme so that leaves me with  Write-Place  to well, write other stuff. I have checked back to the original gumph of what I said in 2008 that I intended posting on it and am pleased to be reminded that I said almost anything was appropriate, so here we  are.  I was brought up in a family culture that listened to and discussed the weather forecasts on the radio and then television and "lighting up time" was noted faithfully. Not that we ever had a car but cycling was a...

  Henri Matisse (1869 – 1954) Matisse he was an artist of the nineteenth century He painted thoughts and feelings for all the world to see Some said his work was ludicrous, not inspiring or smart Some said he was a madman, this could never be called art. He started off in pencils drawing pictures of still life And then went on to portraits of his mistresses and wife The artists there around him called their work Impressionist But Matisse’s attempts at this were more inclined to Realist. Henri Matisse (1869 – 1954) Matisse he was an artist of the nineteenth century He painted thoughts and feelings for all the world to see Some said his work was ludicrous, not inspiring or smart Some said he was a madman, this could never be called art. He started off in pencils drawing pictures of still life And then went on to portraits of his mistresses and wife The artists there around him called their work Impressionist But Matisse’s attempts at this were more inclined to Realist. Then col...

As from today anyone wishing to be married has a greater choice of the venue following new rules from the Anglican Church Where previously couples could get married in a church only if they attended regularly or lived in the parish, it will now be easier to have their wedding service in a church where they have a family or special connection – anywhere they have lived for six months or where their parents or grandparents were married. The Bishop of Reading says “ People who are serious about getting married naturally want a marriage ceremony and a setting which is equally serious - only the Church provides this”. Perhaps, but if you are that serious about getting married, does it really matter where this happens, or rather in which church it happens? A church is a church. Granted, many are more beautifully situated, historically connected or architecturally significant. But isn’t the idea that the marriage is taking place in the presence of God ? And surely, God is all around and ever...