Well, five months have passed, and VIT had her last Sunday morning today at Lilliput St Gulliver and Laputa St Lindalino – her placement parish. What with having a non-operational right leg youngest VKIT and I had to get a lift with one of the parishioners to get to the second service this morning. [...]
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The first posting on this blog concerned coffee and the likelihood of my drinking coffee with the Coverdale Hall wives and husbands. Well, I didn’t envisage six weeks off on crutches at that point, so yesterday I went to my first coffee morning. Ever. In my life. And jolly good were the coffee, cakes and [...] Some years ago I played bass in an ad-hoc worship band. We had a curmudgeonly but inspirational drummer called Bob, who was immensely good fun to make music with. We would each get asked to read bible passages from time to time, and on one occasion the task fell to Bob who, it turned out, [...] There’s a well known phrase about those who can not organise parties in breweries. The observant amongst you might have noticed from earlier posts on this blog that I have formed a less than favourable opinion of the ability of certain parts of the Church of England to manage anything. So it was with great [...] I missed last week’s VFIT support group’s curry night, going instead a High School Musical Evening. That is, an evening of music at the High School which oldest VKIT attends, as opposed to an evening of Disney’s High School Musical. Thankfully. And it was great; shame about the curry though. Anyway, this [...] Imagine a Tesco supermarket fifteen years ago, or maybe Gateway, Hinton’s, or Fine Fare. Now think of yourself next to the sausage counter. You might have found two or three different varieties, maybe thick or thin, and maybe 6 or 12 in a pack. But that’s about it. Now think about what’s [...] VIT is away on a retreat. (In a few weeks I’m going on a retreat too. Except that the dynamo that is leading it for our company says he does not “retreat” and so we are having a “Company Advance.”) Anyway, VIT is on retreat, and so today the wonderful people from the spouses [...] Part of VIT’s training is to go to a parish not too far from Coverdale Hall. There she has to take part in services and generally muck in. She’s going to a Saturday breakfast club next week, with a Speaker. Of course there are almost as many different flavours of local church as there are [...] I shared a room at school with someone who introduced me to the delights of Pink Floyd. It was around about the time they released “Wish you were here“. One of the songs is called Welcome to the Machine: “Welcome my son, welcome to the machine. I had a surreal experience last night. We went for tea (that’s an evening meal to anyone southern reading this) in Coverdale Hall. A pretty decent mass produced steak and ale pie with some very oddly textured mashed potato (I think there was wallpaper paste in it) followed by some kind of pudding with warm [...] |
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