Good in Parts

Writing in the Aff Cath magazine (I'm deliberately not posting a link to their website, as it is woefully out of date at the moment :-( ...

This evening, Luci and Giles came home from a week's tour with the school orchestra in Italy. It was rather unnerving, how very absent ...

Spent this morning at staff meeting trying to dream up a title for the service we are planning for All Souls' tide. The idea is the far ...

Twenty years ago I sang for a couple of years with a church choir in S London. I loved that church so much...it was my first experience of...

Though we are far from overwhelmed with young families in our congregation, this is no reflection of the local area, which has more children...

"They" told me before ordination that I would "enjoy" funerals, even be good at them, and at the risk of emerging as tot...

A very good friend who is currently enjoying life with infant hamsters suggested that it was time I updated this...but the question is, what...

Oh dear. Did anyone imagine that I might grow up after ordination? I think I did kind of entertain the hope myself, but clearly that's n...

I'm very excited today, on 2 counts...1)I have lost my ebay virginity 2) I have managed to buy (on the recommendation of a friend...so ...

Fascinating visit this afternoon to one of the congregation...retired English teacher, who started off by telling me, with a edge of challen...

Rather a week for funerals, this...My first solo on Monday went fine, the family helpfully providing the address and only leaving me to do t...

Rhys suggested here that my flight into "prophecy" yesterday evening might have been no more than an exercise in airing my frustra...

OK folks. I guess the honeymoon between congregation and new curate has just been brought to an untimely end by this evening's sermon......

Well, the last time I was involved in something that called itself that, I was at junior school, and tbh I was far from convinced that hold...

The fourth load of washing has completed its revolutions, the children are eating Pringles and playing their bargain CDs, and I've just ...

As I type the house resounds with excited yelps (the dogs are quite noisy too) Torches are re-united with batteries, holey shoes jettisoned...

Blogging has been somewhat disrupted of late by the fact that those "nice" men at Tiscali and the equally "nice" men at ...

I feel rather ancient today, if truth be told... Yesterday I finally organised insurance cover for Luci to drive my car. I've never bee...

Not quite sure where this week has gone: 3 funerals in 2 days probably has alot to do with the speed at which time hurtles past...Yesterday...

Thank you to everyone who prayed, supported and responded to yesterday's blog....It would be too much to say that things are brighter to...