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Just a quick reminder that the next Dock Book Group is on tomorrow (Saturday 22nd) at 12:00 in the Premier Inn – chatting about Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller (or whatever other hot topics take our fancy) over a cup of luxury hot chocolate (on the house!)  Everyone welcome!

(incidentally this picture genuinely was not posed – we simply do have this calibre of intellectual cat.)

When I was visiting churches in Larne on Sunday morning, my attention was caught during the notices by an announcement and a flyer about the different services being held around Cairncastle and Craigyhill to mark the Week of Prayer For Christian Unity.  There was a service for every night of the week, each one hosted by a different denomination – Presbyterian one night, Anglican the next…  A proper tour of the Larne church scene, if you were up for church every night of the week! Continue reading →

Just back from a great evening at the Linen Hall Library.  Squashed into a tiny upstairs room, a capacity crowd sweltered happily for an hour to get the chance to listen to Alf McCreary (off of the Belfast Telegraph) tell the story of Titanic Port, his weighty tome covering the history of Belfast Harbour. Continue reading →

I know it isn’t cool to admit to liking the 1997 James Cameron Titanic movie, but one bit I’ve always loved is the sequence where the camera tracks through the Titanic’s engine room as the boilers are fired, the steam builds, the massive pistons start to pump and the ship powers out to sea.  There’s a kind of geeky, techy delight in lingering over all that mighty machinery, and the scene has a real dynamism and sense of movement. Continue reading →