SOUL SURMISE

2 min read 2022-05-21 01:29:36

FITZROY'S MAY SUNDAY EVENING EVENTS 2022

After 26 months Fitzroy Sunday evenings are back. It is still too soon to know if we will ever be back to an event every Sunday night but we are

3 min read 2022-05-16 21:14:56

Soul Surmise readers know how much I enjoy a good rock biography. I particularly love memoirs. Elvis Costello, Robbie Robertson, Bruce Springsteen,

1 min read 2022-05-15 05:00:22

A disclaimer. I hate Eurovision. Apologies to my daughters but the songs all blur into a big quagmire of blancmange. Note my use of French! Tonight

3 min read 2022-05-13 22:29:13

10 years ago this very afternoon. Manchester City Football Club have unveiled a statue to Sergio Aguero, 10 years ago to the day that he scored the

2 min read 2022-05-08 23:46:31

I’m the reed by the lough shore That suddenly swishes and sways The deep fibres ripped from root And all that I know gives way. Culture shock

4 min read 2022-05-07 01:13:49

Few other records have so saturated my life as Deacon Blue’s Raintown. In May 1987 I was smitten with it and played it to death pretty much over

2 min read 2022-04-30 14:49:00

For some five years I have wondered about my father’s death. My mum passed away in 2016, the toll of her devotional love and care for dad. Since

2 min read 2022-04-30 13:41:02

For some five years I have wondered about my father’s death. My mum passed away in 2016, the toll of her devotional love and care for dad. Since

2 min read 2022-04-30 00:39:55

The Pieta in St. Peter’s Basilica. What a moving piece of art! My friend, Rab, had spoken to me about it a few years ago. Rab would describe

2 min read 2022-04-28 22:42:25

I wanted to thank you all for the support we have felt from you all on social media as we sit by my dad's hospital bed. I felt that it was too

4 min read 2022-04-26 04:30:42

It is not every day that you get to meet the Pope. Even less chance if you are a Presbyterian minister. Yet, today, that is exactly what my

3 min read 2022-04-22 03:56:44

On Monday morning (April 25th) I am hoping to be ushered in to a private audience with Pope Francis in the Apostolic Palace in Rome. That is an

2 min read 2022-04-17 03:48:26

I was sorry to hear of the death this week of Liam McCloskey. McCloskey will probably be known in Irish history as one of the 1981 hunger strikers.

2 min read 2022-04-15 22:42:53

“I want to go, to the foot of Mount ZionTo the foot of He who made me seeTo the side of a hill blood was spiltWe were filled with a loveAnd we're

2 min read 2022-04-12 02:35:38

READ: Matthew 21: 12-17 “Rise up shepherd, rise upYour flock has roamed far from the hillsThe stars have faded, the sky is stillThe angels