I recently attended the 25th anniversary concert of the Youth Amateur Dramatics group that I was a part of in my teens. I have felt a blog about music coming for some time, since I wrote about some of the people who have helped to form me over the years in my old blog, Ordinand Adventures. [...]
So, I'm nearly a month in and I've been making a list of all surprising things/surprising moments! I find myself with 10 minutes to spare at New Wine and so I've written a list of my top 10 surprises of curacy so far. 1. When we left Durham on 10th June the first thing that [...]
A couple of months ago I would have found strangers in the street saying "Hello, are you Poppy?" rather unerving. But walking around a town, sorry, village, in a dog collar changes things. It changes how a person is seen. I am beginning to adapt, and I now find comments like "excuse me, are you the [...]
Hello! Throughout Vicar School I really enjoyed blogging occasionally, so I thought I'd get a new page to do a bit of blogging alongside my ministry! I'll be moving from writing about the school part of training (theological education) into the apprenticeship phase (curacy), as it were. You'll be very welcome to have a look [...]
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