http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/rockingrector/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. hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/rockingrector/636686We discovered a new pub recently. Well, we didn't exactly discover it. Friends that we hadn't seen for four years heard that I'd retired and suggested meeting for lunch at the "Fur and Feathers". It's a delightful little Norfolk pub, with its own micro-brewery brewing Woodforde Ales and a little...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/rockingrector/636427Ed and I went to church this morning as usual. It was the first service since I chatted with the rector about beginning to take some part in the services, scheduled to start in December. In a lull in the middle of the service, he suddenly called me out to the front, to introduce me to the...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/rockingrector/635958It happened while I was sitting in church on Sunday. I suddenly realised I was ready to return to work, although in a small and very part-time sort of way. The rector and I were both at the cathedral in the afternoon, for the installation of the new Bishop of Thetford. So I crept up to him (the...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/rockingrector/635662Never did find another wi-fi station in Western Scotland. Probably would have found many in Glasgow, but we didn't venture that far. Had a great week with excellent weather - bright sunshine, while the most of England was suffering under rain and floods, apparently. Really awful journey home,...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/rockingrector/635002Here I am in Bonnie Scotland, sitting in the adult chill-out zone of Pirate Pete's Play Area while 3-year-old granddaughter charges round like a hyped-up Olympic runner, climbing up and down nets and slides and ropes, sliding down, tumbling over mats, etc. etc. In other words, two hours of...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/rockingrector/634404The last few days have passed in a bit of a haze. Ed's kidney stone is on the move, but it's a slow process and unless he keeps sedated up to the eyeballs, is excruciatingly painful. Consequently, he's been dosing up daily and nightly, and the days have passed in a soporific haze. For him, at any...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/rockingrector/633674Ed has been very off colour for the last couple of days. His back is quite a lot better, but he seems to have yet another kidney stone hovering, with attendant agonising pain and gut problems. Still, yesterday he took some massively strong painkillers which knocked him out for the day, then he...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/rockingrector/633441Yes, you guessed right. Come Monday morning and Ed said, "Hm. My back feels a lot better today. I think I'll just give it another day and see how it goes..." So no visit to the doctor, and he played golf in the rain yesterday. Tweaking a bit last night - surprise,surprise. Still, he had a good...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/rockingrector/633068Ed has had a bad back for weeks now, but naturally, does nothing about it since it's always going to get better after a rest. It doesn't. Some days it's easier, but others it's worse. Yesterday, he could hardly get out of bed, he was in such pain. We were due to meet our son and our youngest...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/rockingrector/632763My cousin came over on Tuesday, together with her daughter and the daughter's partner. My cousin lives in Wales, and about a month ago we went to Wales and stayed the night with my cousin, in order to play golf with her next morning. It rained. We didn't play. My cousin is staying with her...