She bought the shoes

VIT went to a very big shopping centre today with a French lodger we have staying.  Actually she went to the Bishop’s house to do the 7th CRB check in as many years, but tied this in with the shopping centre.  And she bought some shoes. They are black. Here they are.

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Harvest Moon

Harvest Moon

A nice picture from this morning while walking the dog.

So what’s this all about then? People build church buildings, tall spires to – to what? Get nearer to God – didn’t work with the Tower of Babel. Maybe to show how big and powerful (and pointy) God is compared with smaller [...]

Mountain tops and washing up

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 week [...]

Away a lot

I have perhaps already alluded to the logistical challenge of being a VFIT. Many people have jobs which take them away from home, and many of those have both partners doing full time jobs. So we are by no means unique. But VIT and I are renegotiating the way we interact with each other over [...]

A priest remembered in Belgium

In my previous post I mentioned it had been an odd week, this half term. VIT in college, me with the kids. The second half of VIT’s week has less in the timetable, so my week has sort of returned to normal – i.e. I’m away from home. In fact I am writing this heading [...]

It takes me back, and confuses me…

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 [...]