Wind back nearly three years, and I was away with Clergy Chapter (group of local vicars) at Whalley Abbey just as the PM announced that lockdown was coming. It was useful to be together as we thought through the implications of this, but the next day, the retreat centre pretty much locked the doors behind [...]
I can hardly believe it, but I've been vicar of All Saints with St Frideswyde for three months and five days! In the past three months, there has been an advent study, Toy Service, Christingle, carols to the elderly, carol singing outside school, Christmas itself, trips into school, trips from schools into church, an Open [...]
I don't think anything could have prepared me for the last seven days. I've read a lot about what would happen when the Queen died. I've watched interviews with people predicting the impact this would have upon our nation, upon the world. But experiencing it has been something else entirely. Don't get me wrong, I [...]
Flash back to 1st January 2022 and Nathan and I were sat eating a Macdonalds with a sleeping Sophia in the backseat. I lifted my diet coke in the air as a toast. 'To 2022!' I said. 'To a year with no change!' said Nathan. 'Cheers to that!' I agreed. Since we arrived in Liverpool [...]
Rev Poppy 