9.15am Here I am outside the phone shop on South Road in Waterloo and… the shutters are down! I’m sure it said 9am on Google…

9.30am You know things are looking bleak when there’s a queue of people outside waiting to complain. OK, not quite a queue. Just a couple. But the fella I was chatting to has been back to the shop 5 times because his phone keeps going funny again when he gets home!

10am Back at church. My phone is miraculously charging again, even though it wasn’t doing so at all last night, no matter how many chargers I tried! Anyway, I’ve sent that special video over to Nathan, so at least it’s online somewhere now.

11.10am I can feel the tension lifting and I fancy lunch. I’ve called Nathan to ask if he wants to come with me, which he does!

12.45pm Sermons sorted, prayer stations organised, orders of service all lined up. With the help pf our wonderful administrator, we are good to go!

1.15pm Lunch with Nathan: cappuccino and a veggie breakfast. What could be nicer?

3pm Okay, I am seriously flagging. The benefit of doing the fun day last Saturday is that I should get this Saturday off. But the downside is that I haven’t had a day off since 21st March and I am seriously tired!

4.45pm I’ve been to Asda to buy grape juice and gluten free rolls. Why is it so busy?! It’s reminding me of Christmas!

5.20pm I’m home for tea and a snuggle with my little people, who have been to Dunelm and the park with Mum and Dad today. I’ll be off out again at about 6.30 for our Maundy Thursday communion service.

7.45pm Well that was really lovely. We did hand washing (because I felt it was more accessible than foot washing), communion and stripping of the altar. One of my favourite bits of the whole church year is when all the decorations are taken down on Maundy Thursday. We do this to symbolise Christ being prepared for death, and to show how serious and sombre this time is. The churches look so beautiful and simple. I love St Giles especially when it’s all stripped back.

Mind you, I had an interesting time stripping our altar. I’d already moved the high chair Aidan sits in into the Vestry and made sure there were no snacks lying around. In the end, I had to move a bracelet, a headband, a chocolate raisin and a knitted Christingle, all of which were lurking nearby, thanks to my kids!

9.30pm I’m home and thinking about going to see Nathan at St Giles. Like I said, I love it when all the decorations and candles have been moved. They’re having a watch, which is a quiet time of prayer, followed by another service at 10. What will that be, then? The tenth since Palm Sunday? He’s working hard.

10.45pm Back home again. St Giles was as beautiful as I remember, and as the smell of incese hit my nose I though ‘ahh, lovely’. Something I never thought I’d say! I wandered through to the Lady Chapel and sat with five others as the watch turned into the Tenebrae service. This means darkness, and it’s a service where 12 candles are extinguished to mark the disciples abandoning Jesus after he was arrested. At the end, the main paschal candle was blown out, the lights were turned off and we all stamped our feet to represent Jesus being locked in a cell overnight.

I’ve not been to a service like that for a good few years. I’m tired now, but it was certianly powerful.

11.30pm In bed and ready for sleep. Tomorrow will involve services at 10 and 2, and the walk of witness in Crosby Village in between.