Personal diary of John Barnabas (aka Barney) Leith
From the monthly archives:
There’s not a lot one can do to resist such a look from a granddaughter!
Tom, Vicky and Maya came to visit yesterday – and, coincidentally, we had the first summer day for what seems like months. We were actually able to sit outside in the sun and eat.
I’m off to Italy tomorrow [...]
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The trouble with changing the them of one’s blog is that one has to fiddle around to make it exactly as one would like it to be. When I started to change, I had another theme in mind than the one I’ve ended up with. I found that the first theme I chose didn’t have [...]
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Please excuse any hiccups while I manage the changeover to the new theme I’ve chosen for Barnabas Quotidianus. There will be adjustments over the coming days and weeks (more realistically it will be weeks…). For a start off, the header picture will have to change.
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This video by the Muslim Network for Baha’i Rights cleverly spoofs a tourist ad for Egypt to highlight the denial of ID cards to Baha’is and others in Egypt who are neither Muslim, Christian or Jewish.
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Human Rights, Egypt’s most precious treasure – not for everyone
The new computerized ID cards will soon become mandatory [...]
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Barnabas Quotidianus has signed up to support Blog Action Day.
On October 15th, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone
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One of the great joys of the Baha’i summer school in Bath was the music. I wish, I wish I could have been a competent musician, a singer-songwriter like the members of the Smith family from Cornwall. Sadly I drive good people to distraction with my piano playing, but I utterly lack the natural musicianship [...]
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It might seems highly unlikely at the present time to sit down with 30 or 40 young people to talk about life after death and to pray together. And yet that’s what I had the privilege of doing during the recent Baha’i summer school in Bath, UK.
Young people are gaining such a scary reputation [...]
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OK, sorry about that. I was at the Baha’i summer school in Bath last week – and a wonderful summer school it was, too. Unfortunately my server went down late on Friday night just before I went to Bath and didn’t come back up until Monday morning. The summer school took place at Kingswood School, [...]
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I am sorry about the downtime my server suffered over the weekend and the absence of any posts on the blog for some time. I am currently at one of the English Baha’i summer schools – in a rather wet Bath (the city, not the tub).
I hope to be able to write later in the [...]
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Do the religious, the non-religious and the anti-religious annihilate each other, like matter and anti-matter? Or can they work fruitfully together to common ends?
My experience says they can work together.
Yesterday morning – sunny but cool – I took the Piccadilly Line from King’s Cross to Holborn, bought a latte in the Costa at the [...]
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