Life in the Rocking Rectory

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Saturday, October 16, 2010

How time flies!

I can hardly believe a week has passed since I last blogged. Not because anything special has happened, but perhaps because it's been a lovely, normal week; walking, golf, a little writing, lunch with a friend, a new skirt/culottes for choir - must tell you about that. We have to wear long black... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, October 10, 2010

A busy week

The paper proof of my new novel arrived on my doormat this week, so I've had a busy (and tedious) time, reading all through it yet again and correcting any typos. I've already read through it about fifty times to correct mistakes, including reading from the back forwards, but still I find more.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, October 3, 2010

Harvest Festival

I took the Harvest Festival service at North Walsham Methodist Church today. North Walsham is a small market town in North Norfolk, about twenty miles from where we live now, but that's not all. It's the church my parents attended for many years until they died, and where my father was organist,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Good news

I visited Steve and Rachel this morning, to find out how the very brief honeymoon had gone and how Rachel was feeling. Now that the wedding and baptism is over, I rather expected some fallout in her physical condition, but not a bit of it. They had a wonderful two days at the hotel, who had upgraded... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, September 27, 2010

A great weekend

Ed and I had a great weekend, which was lovely after such an emotionally demanding week. On Saturday we went to the golden wedding of friends of ours. They were married very young, but against the forebodings of both sets of parents, the marriage worked. They produced four sons, all now grown up and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, September 25, 2010

Sam's baptism

Yesterday was little Sam's baptism. What I hadn't quite appreciated, was that Rachel was going to make the entrance she would have made if it had been her wedding as planned. My first hint of this came when Steve arrived early, dressed in his wedding gear complete with smart, light green cravat.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, September 23, 2010

A bitter-sweet occasion

Remember me telling you about Steve and Rachel? They're the young couple who rang me last month to book a wedding and baptism combined, at very short notice because Rachel is terminally ill. The service is scheduled for tomorrow, so I went to see the young couple again this week, just to go over the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, September 20, 2010

Blackberrying

Ed and I have been blackberrying. It has a nice, English romantic feel to it, of halcyon days in the Autumn sunlight retrieving the fruits of the hedgerows. Well, we picked half a container (a small container) and stewed them with apples for apple and blackberry crumble. It was good. There's... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, September 18, 2010

A blessing - in more ways than one

Just back from officiating at a blessing. This usually happens when there's been a divorce in the background, but not in this case. The bride and groom were married in Japan, because the bride is Japanese. Today they had a ceremony here in Norfolk, for all their English family and friends. It was... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Dunbrody famine ship

Today's wall-to-wall rain is reminiscent of last week in Ireland. We had one day of non-stop torrential rain, so found our way to visit the Dunbrody, a replica of one of the so-called "famine ships" that took Irish emigrants to America. In the nineteenth century, the potato harvest failed in Ireland... Sign in to see full entry.

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A bird's eye view of day-to-day life an a rural Anglican rectory. Meet the villagers. Hear the gossip. Share in the complaints.Be the fly on the wall. Glossary................................................... Benefice - a group of churches, ususally in rural areas, working together. .... Churchwarden - person with main responsibility for running of church. .... ... ... PCC - Parochial Church Council - ruling body of elected members working with the Churchwarden to ensure the upkeep of the building and decide on the worship........... Mardle - a Norfolk word for chat or conversation.

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