Category Archives: Religious for a year: Atheist-man’s experiment

One Sunday morning my husband decided he wanted, ‘to see what Advent’s like’. I am – was – a resting Catholic so we took ourselves off to Ss Peter & Paul for 11.30 Mass. He’s decided to do it for the full year. He’s never been baptised, never been to a religious school. It’s all new to him. This is how I am seeing it!

A shrine, a power station and three (female) astrophysicists

Posted on July 18, 2014 by memoirsofahusk

I’m doing a little trip, on my own. Archaeo-man’s off to Africa, archaeo-ing. Me – I’m making a pilgrimage. It begins well. A leisurely start – mug of tea, dipping a biscuit. Gazing out of the window at the birds … Continue reading →

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Blowing in to an old new world

Posted on December 30, 2013 by memoirsofahusk

A Strauss waltz dances from the breakfast radio. Outside, the headless firs wave their arms like frenzied violinists in some arboreal orchestra. The tall birches, double basses of the tree world, waver and shiver, constrained by their stature – and … Continue reading →

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Taboo? (I’m talking about Jesus)

Posted on October 9, 2013 by memoirsofahusk

Do you cringe when someone mentions Jesus in polite conversation? I’ll admit it – I do. Not because I want to, or choose to, but because – well – I don’t really know. It’s an unconscious reaction. I’ve never been … Continue reading →

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Listen…

Posted on July 29, 2013 by memoirsofahusk

There’s something mind-bogglingly awesome on your television. It’s in between the channels – no picture, just sound. A noise. And not just any noise. One hundredth of the fizz-crackle-hiss-buzz sound your blind grey screen’s emitting is something goose-bump-inducingly extraordinary. Ineffable. … Continue reading →

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A new BBC radio programme, please, to cheer up the world

Posted on June 7, 2013 by memoirsofahusk

I’m sitting in a classroom, in a temporary building on a patch of waste ground. The ‘hut’, as we call it, looks as if it’s been dropped here by a tornado, like Dorothy’s farm in the Wizard of Oz. We’re … Continue reading →

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Up she rises, earl-eye in the morning. One Sunday in May.

Posted on June 1, 2013 by memoirsofahusk

Amazing what the sun brings out, my parents would say. Like spots. Though it’s possible they actually said pimples. Does anyone say pimples any more? Religion is like a moral sun for me. It brings out my worst fears, agonies, … Continue reading →

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Weeping angels and speaking hearts

Posted on May 14, 2013 by memoirsofahusk

Since the age of eight I’ve been a fan of Doctor Who, a children’s TV programme in which an anonymous Doctor (who?) travels through time and space, battling evil. The Doctor’s also a Time Lord, which means he ‘regenerates’ rather … Continue reading →

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