It's 20th December which means... 5 days to go! The week before Christmas is always very busy and intense, as the picture of my messy desk implies, but I'm feeling better than last week, so it's getting 8/10. At the weekend, my family came to stay. Dad & Bingley came on Thursday, Mum & Isabelle [...]
Well, what a week. Even when drafting this blog yesterday (Thursday), I knew that this week couldn't get more than 6/10. Looking at things this morning, on balance, it's getting 5/10. This week has been a bit of a ministry struggle. Lots of things have seemed hard work. There's been some difficult rumours to cope [...]
Blimey, didn't that week go fast! It's getting 6/10. I've had a heavy cold and it's been very frustrating! Although, it hasn't been all bad. We had a lovey time with Philippa at the weekend. We had a slow get up, had breakfast in Riva and went to Aintree Racecourse for the Christmas Market which was [...]
In November I decided to set goals to focus my time over the month (see the blog post here). I didn't get everything done, but I did find it to be a really useful way to break bigger projects and aspects of ministry into smaller chunks. In November, I did 10 pastoral visits, set up [...]
Rev Poppy 