After some pretty long reads, it was nice to finish a book in just a couple of days! Welcome to book number 25, Lamentations. It does sound particularly melancholy, but it is no more so than Jeremiah, I wouldn't say! We don't know who wrote Lamentations, but we do know that it is comprised of [...]
Hi and happy Monday! I've managed to get over my cold and so it's been another full week with: Burns night, church council meeting, time in the Hub, a prayer meeting, chats with colleagues, inspired video series, a phonics workshop at school and two Sunday services. Mum life was pretty good. We had Mum, Dad, [...]
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 [...]
I always find the stretch between Christmas and post-Christmas leave somewhat odd. We keep going for a bit because we like to have time after Christmas to clear our desks, but it's suddenly so still after a non-stop December. So it's been reasonably quiet since the last check-in. I took a funeral on the 30th, [...]
Rev Poppy 