As I mentioned previously, we each brought about 30kg of luggage with us! Emirates is very generous in it's baggage allowance, and so we all carried 10kg of personal luggage and 20kg of suitcases and stuff given by the people of Formby. Donations from St Peter's Church and pencil cases from Trinity St Peter's School [...]
As we get priested a week today (yikes!) I decided that the only book I would bring with me to Uganda was my Bible, with the additional benefit that I could keep the weight of my luggage to a minimum! So when I had an early night when we arrived in Luwero, I flicked open [...]
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 tend to try and post about things which are finished, over and done with, sorted and have been fully reflected on. But life isn't like that, and I've been feeling obligated to blog about something I'm right in the middle of, as it were. So this is my driving story. This is about learning [...]
Rev Poppy 