Life in the Rocking Rectory

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Saturday, July 11, 2009

Losing internet access...

Just a note to say I may only be able to blog intermittently (OK, more intermittently) for a while, as number one son is taking the desktop computer and wireless router to his new home in about an hour. Will be able to log on from the bungalow, but we're only up there on Thursday nights and Fridays... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, July 8, 2009

A treat?

Two of our kids visited this last weekend. Well, we had threatened them with chucking all of their stuff, which has been cluttering the Rectory for the last ten years, into a skip if it's not cleared by the end of this month. So there was a lot of to-ing and fro-ing. In the course of the weekend... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, July 6, 2009

Church - and Open Gardens

Arrived at church for the service yesterday morning only to see a large sigh outside the lych-gate, pointing towards the West door (the main entrance to the church). 'Open Gardens tickets here' it proclaimed, in large letters. And sure enough, there was a table ensconced in the church porch,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, July 3, 2009

Success!

Must blog quickly today as Murray is due on centre court in about an hour and a half, after the Federer/Haas match. Nine Brits have reached the semi finals in the last 71 years, none have got through to the finals. The last appearance in the finals was 71 years ago and the last win by a Brit was 75... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, July 2, 2009

Two more final meetings

Had two meetings scheduled for the same time last night. As they were two final meetings, felt obliged to go to both to say farewell and thank you. No, didn’t cut myself in half (have you ever cogitated on that saying of Jesus, “If you eye offends you pluck it out” etc? I haven’t seen all that many... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

An interesting funeral

This was an interesting funeral, not only because I quietly melted until I became just a little pool of liquid, clad as I was in robes with a stole around my neck. Well, quite a big pool of liquid actually. It was oppressively hot, even in church. No, it wasn’t that at all. Neither was it the fact... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, June 27, 2009

The next fête.

Just back from the next church fête. Well, not just back. Back in time to watch the entire Murray/Troicki match on TV and see our man win convincingly. I normally blog whilst watching TV - or at least, while the TV is on - but it's so long since we in the UK had any real hopes at Wimbledon that... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, June 25, 2009

Listening to the Bishop

We had a 'Greater Chapter' meeting last night, where the speaker was the Bishop of Norwich. The Greater Chapter consists of all the active priests - stipendiary, non-stipendiary and Ordained Local Ministers - in our deanery, plus all the retired priests and all the Licensed Readers. A 'Licensed... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Sold!

Sold a load of stuff at the fête on Saturday, but brought a load home too. The churchwarden of the next church to hold a fête - on Saturday - came this morning with an estate car which we loaded to the rafters (do estate cars have rafters? Do any cars, come to that? But you get the picture.)... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, June 20, 2009

Packing up

This trying to pack up the entire contents of the Rectory in order to squeeze them into a much smaller bungalow which already contains all we want, is the fast track to madness. But I had a brilliant idea. The first of the church summer fêtes starts today, so I arranged with the churchwarden to take... 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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