Ten years ago today I landed in Burundi and my life changed forever. I was 19 and when an email landed in my inbox 8 months earlier inviting me to go on the trip, I jumped at the chance. But when it came to zipping up my suitcase the night before, I was terrified and [...]
Yesterday marked 1000 days since I was ordained deacon, since I became a Rev and started to wear a dog collar. You might well ask 'Poppy, how on earth would you know that?!' Well, a couple of weeks ago, I was curious about how many days I had been ordained, and I noticed that 1000 [...]
When Nathan and I were discerning to move to the Liverpool area to do our curacies, I remember being really sad about losing the links and friendships I had developed in other parts of the world through Southwell & Nottingham diocese. When I was 19, I went to Burundi, and then again when I was 20, [...]
I have been having a tough couple of weeks. Possibly my toughest couple of weeks so far. Which is bizarre, as I survived Christmas, I got through Easter and I also handled an MA deadline a week before I got married alongside working. So I've been asking myself, why now has the pressure got so [...]
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