Nephew is watching the Minecraft movie. Turns out you can kill the metal.

Hence the twelve days of Christmas song. Or the small gifts The Bassplayer™ and I give each other.

Make a Bond film academic: Diamonds are pure carbon, crystallized deep within the Earth under immense pressure.

On the third day of Christmas @thebassplayer.bsky.social gave to me. A t-shirt.

“Hey Robb, are you well?” “Yeah”. “Mark the callendar. This is the first family Christmas You’ve turned up to in over a decade where you haven’t been really ill”. Boxing Day 😬

On the second day of Christmas, @thebassplayer.bsky.social gave to me… the ability to make baubles out of ice. They’re huge. I hope they fit in my glasses.

I forgot to post the first day of Christmas. On the first day of Christmas @thebassplayer.bsky.social gave to me, a rock Pikmin plushie.

“While a distorted economy leads us to treat human beings as mere merchandise, God becomes like us, revealing the infinite dignity of every person,” said Leo. “Where there is room for the human person, there is room for God. Even a stable can become more sacred than a temple.“

We’re gonna need some more FBI guys I guess.

Please help us raise money for @mind.org.uk.

What a busy weekend! Beer and Carols on Saturday. Rock Mass on Sunday. And an absolutely RAMMED Very Metal Christmas last night in the Upper George! A huge thank you to everyone who has been so generous with your donations to @mind.org.uk!

This went down a treat live last night at Very Metal Christmas.

A prayer for those alone this Christmas. 🙏

If you can’t make it out tonight, it would be really nice if you were able to donate via our just giving page. www.justgiving.com/campaign/ver...

Tonight we are heading down to the Upper George in Halifax with everyone from @holynativity.bsky.social to go carolling. We are raising money for @mind.org.uk. We’d love to see you there!

Why not listen to our Christmas single whilst you are at it? open.spotify.com/track/7MhIm6...

Last night’s Rock Mass Christmas was fun!

Well that was a lot of fun to play last night.

Deck the Halls With Boughs of Holly! Tis the season to be jolly! Oh Lord yeah!

What Apple didn’t tell you when they said “your watch will unlock with your face” is that “in a year we will brick your watch because we now want the code we taught you to live without so that we can install an *update*”. Not banking. A software UPDATE!

It’s a busy weekend. @metanoiauk.bsky.social are playing at Beer and Carols tonight. Rock Mass tomorrow night. Then it is Very Metal Christmas in the Upper George pub in the centre of Halifax on Monday night! Just the standard life of a vicar in the Church of England.

It’s Beer and Carols tonight!

He’s been! Happy cheese day everyone! Merry Cheesemas!!

Recording this was so much fun! We’re going to be playing it and another two hours of metal carols at three gigs over the weekend!

Here for some woke nonsense by Charles dickens. Front row. “How did you get this?”

Jesus, forgive me for the times I desired a seat at a table you would’ve flipped. — Steven Price

Every time we release music on Apple Music though, it spends its first few weeks registered as a release for a totally different band. And I have to spend an hour working out how to get Apple Music support to fix it. Which just sits in their inbox for weeks until they eventually get round to it.

Check out our Christmas Single released TODAY on all major streaming platforms! With your help we could make an ancient Christmas Carol sung round pubs for over five hundred years Christmas Number 10,346 on the Hit Parade! Put it on your Christmas Playlist in heavy rotation!

We’ve been having a lot of fun rehearsing for Very Metal Christmas! We’d love to have you join us on the 22nd as we raise money for @mind.org.uk!

So … in a first … after appearing for Manchester Metropolitan University in last year’s Christmas #UniversityChallenge … I’m back again this year representing Lancaster University… tune in on 30th December for our 1st round match & watch me cock-up a biblical adjacent question … the shame …

This evening it is a rehearsal with @metanoiauk.bsky.social for …. Beer and Carols (Holy Nativity 20th) Rock Mass (Holy Nativity 21st) Very Metal Christmas (The Upper George 22nd)

I appear to have a full teaching timetable today. Someone hand me the oranges!

I have finished the antibiotics. Still coughing. Got a full two and a half weeks of vicaring to do.

A friend just told me that after watching A Christmas Carol at the theatre last night she overheard some tipsy women describe it as “alright but a bit woke”.

Absolutely loved today mixing @metanoiauk.bsky.social christmas single. Tomorrow it is mastered and we get it out there!

Shetland (TV series) this week. The most realistic scene on TV for months is how Ruth talked to her brother (the minister) in the Kirk. “You go and… do your…. thing”.

I have antibiotics. And I’m trying to sell two tickets to The Fast Show for tonight. Message me if you are near Bradford.

This bit is especially stupid, but highlights something I think is pretty unique to history. Is there another academic subject to which such emotional attachment is applied? Not just superceding facts, but the whole idea it's about judging good & evil in the past.

Just sold tonight’s gig tickets and went back to my plague pit.

Thread. Another way of looking at it is Shatner is a star and Nimoy was a character actor.

Unclean. Unclean. A plague is upon this house. Save yourselves. Unclean.

Stitches are out. Let’s see if I can untangle the giant dreadlock where my hair was 9 days ago.

And to think that I grew up with Reagan and Thatcher and dreamed of a brighter future when we were adults.

Monkey. Again, pondering why BlueSky sometime’s manages to hot-link Instagram and sometimes doesn’t. www.instagram.com/p/DRT6nhoDUY...

We’ve already had quite a bit of interest in our next Open Day, coming up on Sunday December 7th, but there is still space! Do come and see us if you’re in the discernment process and wondering about next steps. #CofE #anglican ✝️⚓️ college.mirfield.org.uk/open-day-reg...

Deer. www.instagram.com/p/DRCxeNXCAY...

The Saadian Tombs in Marrakech. www.instagram.com/p/DRRSabFlVv...

Finally.

Why did that last share from Instagram work with a hotlink but my others don’t? I usually get a box at the bottom of a post that says:

Macaque. www.instagram.com/p/DROx1Q3Ecp...