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Goodbye twenties!

March 19, 2023October 25, 2023 revpoppy1 Comment

I'm sat in my PJs with a gin and knitting, having just tidied and washed up from Mothering Sunday afternoon with our family. It's just occurred to me that it's my last day in my twenties! Cue blog. My twenties have been amazing and full. Graduating from Chester, a year in London, Vicar School, meeting [...]

Posted in Everything Else!Tagged birthday, change, thirties, twenties

Back to Whalley

February 26, 2023October 25, 2023 revpoppy

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 [...]

Posted in Ministry, Travel & FestivalsTagged Ministry, Prayer, retreat

Weekly Check-in 131

February 20, 2023 revpoppy1 Comment

Another week, another Sunday evening blog! It's been a good week, with a bit of a break in our streak of illness. Last weekend, Sophia was a bit sick, and so we kept her off on Monday to comply with the nursery's 48-hour sickness rule. She was feeling so much better though. I had her [...]

Posted in Weekly Check-inTagged church, parent, toddler, vicar

Three months at ASSF

February 18, 2023October 25, 2023 revpoppy2 Comments

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 [...]

Posted in MinistryTagged church, Ministry, vicar

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