Last week, this blog turned 7 years old! Things have changed a huge amount since I was a curate and freshly minted deacon setting up this website, and writing my first post, called New home, new blog! Over that time I've written about ministry and becoming a priest and a vicar. A few years in, I [...]
Another year, another reading challenge! Elmer's Special Day. David Mckee. The sequel to the original where even more of the jungle get involved in Elmer's day! A lovely read. Little Miss Hug. Roger Hargreaves. Well, it's a nice story. But we've had a conversation about how it's not OK to hug people if they say [...]
I'm saying it right at the start: I am aware how privileged, snotty and ungrateful I will sound to some in this blog. But what I'm trying to say is that bucketlist experiences can be a bit of a let down. So, we were very kindly given a voucher for the Titanic Hotel as a [...]
I really apologise that I've been so bad with updating you on my 40 before 40 challenge! Here's number 2, only 10 months late. For Soph's second birthday, we took her to Pet's Corner (now called Sundown Adventureland) near Retford. Bizarrely, Nathan and I have a lot of childhood memories from similar places in Nottinghamshire/South [...]
Rev Poppy 