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 [...]
Hello from the end of another long week of ministry, fun and a splash of frustration. This week has involved... meetings with colleagues, a midwife appointment, spiritual direction, standing committee, a coffee with my successor at The Good Shepherd, picking up a new highchair, quiet communion service, nursing home communion, a sick Sophia (second week [...]
After the wonderful few days that was Disney (A-Z of Disney, Sad Disney Bingo, Disney: It’s A Small World and Lunch with the Princesses), we were grateful that we'd had the foresight to book a week off afterwards as well. We were all shattered! We got back to Aintree at 3am on the Saturday morning and we [...]
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 [...]
Rev Poppy 