Hands up if you have cat envy right now. 🙋🏼‍♀️ Hibernation calls. OH recommends an early night.

Things I love about Yorkshire (the first of an occasional series). People actually just say "Meadow-hell" when talking of the shopping centre.

#interfaithweek #ifw25 #ifw2025 #rosesforpeace wonderful to give out messages of peace from the faith and belief communities of #Huddersfield today as our week of events comes to a close.

A Humanist, Hindu, Muslim, Christian and a Jew met in Huddersfield University and... ...had a delightful reflection on the topic of "light" Thank you @canonrachel.bsky.social , for inviting me to speak on today's panel. No proselytising from me today: fatherhilarious.blog/2025/10/what...

This job - genuinely "I'd apply for it myself in a heartbeat" kinda job. Meant every word I say in the intro to the profile. Get in touch if I can tell you anything or pray for your discernment as you look at it www.cofepathways.org/members/modu...

In between services. It's just a tiny buzz but I do get a buzz from eating food like I'm in Friends or Big Bang Theory. ⚓✝️

#strictly some highly shonky music choices tonight.

75 years ago today, the European Convention of Human Rights, ECHR, was created. The UK played a key role in shaping it. We should celebrate the ECHR & the vision of all who brought it to life. We must resist regressive & cynical moves to rip us out of the convention!

⚓✝️ Clergy - what's your imaginary "other life"? This might be the one where you jack it all in and stack shelves (a common theme I think!) Or just the fantasy other life where God happened to call you to use different skills in a different place.....

Can I recommend this? ⚓✝️ Happened in my "not paying any attention to the church years". Great podcast. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I am a lover of pop music. All sorts of embarrassing nonsense. I was wondering if I had finally grown out of this as "K Pop Daemon Hunters" leaves me cold. But no - just heard Kylie's new 🎄 song. Terrible. But I'm dancing. 🤦🏼‍♀️

Marsden and Slaithwaite are officially advertising for a new Vicar. Beautiful place to live, a church which loves God and neighbour: they're looking for a priest to lead them further... Contact @billbraviner.bsky.social or @canonrachel.bsky.social for info, pls share #CofEPeeps @leeds.anglican.org

✝️⚓ What draws you to buy a book? These days I seem to follow the trail from book to book - picking up references in one to lead me to another. I don't remember why I bought this - it's been on the bedside table for months - but can now confirm it's brilliant and just what I needed right now.

Need to burn these sun-bent candles down before Advent. So it's like some kind of countdown to some kind of countdown .... 👀 Are these the moments that create loops in the space time continuum?

⚓✝️ Is there a league table of cathedral cafés/ refectories? I feel there should be 🧐 Southwark is my current number one btw. Patisserie and a small selection of things done really, really well. Other opinions are welcome. 😊

First ever visit to Norwich Cathedral today. Lovely atmosphere. Staff and volunteers all polite, friendly, unintrusive. Bargain at £5 suggested donation - didn't feel the need to claim a clergy freebie. Love how they invite engagement with the meaning of the space.

I am on leave. I am sleeping a 2 minute walk from the North Sea. The water is hard. The tea is shonky. The sea will be chilly. I have bacon, eggs, mushrooms, a husband playing guitar in the next room and a keyboard to write on. TBTG.

Chateau Firth 2025. The biblical gardening advice has come through for us this year.

@robbsutherland.bsky.social and I seem both to have incurred a £100 fine as a result of following Google maps to get to our clergy study day. Tried to make us turn left where there was no left turn - so we ended up (separate vehicles) driving ahead onto the buses only. ⚓✝️

✝️⚓ Chance conversation with a lovely colleague from the local council today about Hate Crime Prevention Week and he gifted me this fab little book which came out if the work of #Batley poets. Looking forward to sharing some of these at our Wednesday lunchtime bible study.

✝️⚓ Come and work in my Deanery #Huddersfield Small - diverse in tradition - friendly - collegiate. This parish is evangelical, thriving, with faithful engaged laity and great missional opportunities www.cofepathways.org/members/modu...

Good morning at church with a belated Generosity Week and then fb memories brings me this happy one from a scarecrow festival of yore. Good Sabbath one and all ✝️⚓

How it started. And how it's going.

There is darkness in the world today but light and joy too. We don't give up our care & action for the wrong by turning to joy. Joy & light give us strength for the caring. If you want to share a pic, a tune, a moment of joy today - #shine as a light in the world to the glory of #God people. ⚓✝️

Starting my day with lots of Vicks and a quick kitchen dance to this - and wondering if I can blame my shonky knees on dancing like Jimmy too much youtu.be/IY4TtASv3w0?...

The Right Reverend Dr David Walker, Bishop of Manchester, has issued a statement in response to the attack on Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue this morning. Read the statement in full: www.manchester.anglican.org/bishop-of-ma... @bishmanchester.bsky.social

✝️⚓ 16 years ago today. Surrounded by friends. TBTG.

✝️⚓ Psalm 34 at MP today. Took me straight to this and the vision of @robbandruth.bsky.social singing "I sought the Lord and the Lord come." music.youtube.com/watch?v=yhcr... Happy Monday.

✝️⚓ Look - I know it's not the same guy - but I can't help it. Happy feast y'all.

God is doing a new thing - does new things all the time. ✝️⚓ After 10 months of ministering here as the only on-staff clergy person - I get to pray and listen and receive God's sacrament from the hand of this able priest - my new curate. TBTG.

Loving this

Today at #Huddersfield Parish Church we made our door mat true. Great stories of our town and people told - from education, faith and local media. Lovely performance from the kids of #Longwood Theatre. When times feel hard it's a tonic to remember all we have to celebrate.

I was once asked in a sub-set of a job interview what music I would choose for my funeral. I chose sensible things. Now - Stanford's Nunc in B flat allowing - I am mainly planning being carried out to the reprise of "Do you hear the people sing" from Les Mis. youtu.be/N_UGAnxeCEk?...

Watching #lesmiserables It breaks my heart every time. Because the revolutionaries and the soldiers are the same. The women who scrub blood from the streets are the same as the Lovely Ladies (brilliant writing).

I have once again been deceived by the vicarage. Having spent my morning under a blanket because the vicarage is cold, I discover that outside in Huddersfield it is actually quite warm.

Small rosary close up. Huge rosary further away. 🐄 #fatherted ⚓✝️

New Leaf Bookshop are hosting an evening of Music and Words with Joanne Harris this Friday: St James Church, Slaithwaite... tickets here: www.anewleafbookshop.co.uk/events/an-ev... @joannechocolat.bsky.social #Vianne

#evensong ✝️⚓

#festivalofpreaching today

I do love that there London village.

Happy sigh. ⚓✝️

#London feeling delightfully very much like a "go" zone today.

On my way to @southwarkcathedral.bsky.social for the Festival of Preaching tomorrow. It's been a long hard week and I nearly didn't come - but it's good to be on the way in every sense today.

Don't hear this often enough in worship. And we heard it in Morning Prayer today. Happy Monday folks ✝️⚓ open.spotify.com/track/216Ilb...

Wonderful welcome service for our new curate Rev Wayne, with colleagues from the Deanery, friends and family from the Midlands, our Bishop and Archdeacon. I have been treated to proper Jamaican rum cake - there is no going back.

Got to have a flying visit to my happy place this weekend. Joy.

Much as I enjoy watching a stellar cast of Brits having a marvellous time in the English countryside - Thursday Murder Club is absolute utter garbage. I'm sure I'll watch the entire series in the same spirit. Garbage nevertheless.

Thinking of my friend @fatherhilarious.blog as I pray in a public place this morning.