In other news there was a 3.3 magnitude earthquake in the Lake District last night so maybe these are the End Times after all

Good evening skylarks. The Women’s Institute, yes you heard me correctly, the Women’s Institute is in the national news. And a whole lot of people who have never for a nanosecond considered joining it are now arguing about who is eligible to be a member 🤨

We all know the feeling! 😆 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead remains my favourite Stoppard play. Leopoldstadt was the last one I saw on stage. Rest in brilliance, Sir Tom.

Good evening skylarks. For the puzzled among you, and there do seem to be a few, a feminist is someone who centres and prioritises the rights of women. Anyone who calls themselves a feminist and doesn’t do this is … something else.

Good morning skylarks. No, the robin on your bird feeder isn’t a loved one trying to get in touch with you from beyond the grave, he’s there for the snax 🤷‍♀️

Good morning skylarks. Just finished reading ‘Bohemia in London’, an early work by the multi faceted Arthur Ransome. A beautiful little study of literary and artistic life in Chelsea, Soho and Hampstead in his own young days, do find a copy if you can.

Farewell regular flat white. 'Functional' coffees are hitting the high street www.bbc.com/news/article... Yep, for an extra £ you can add collagen powder to your coffee even though we know it can’t survive the digestive process or make it to any parts of your body that might need collagen 🤷‍♀️

Hands up anyone who thinks a new Chinese mega embassy in central London is a really good idea 😳

Now do coat hangers 🤔

The North wind hath blown and we have had snow. Must put out some iron rations for my robin.

X is down. I thought you’d all like to know that.

Good afternoon churchy skylarks. Have you ordered the candles for your Advent Wreath? Have you? Have you?

Terry’s Chocolate Oranges were not the only fruit who knew

On Saturday our MP asked a hall full of church leaders and churchgoers whether they’d be happy in principle to pay more income tax to fund public services and every hand went up just thought you’d like to know that

Chick-fil-A is such a weird name for a chicken sandwich shop. What does it mean? How is it pronounced? Is there a Chick-fil-B?

It’s about time …

Well this Christmas I’m taking a stand against the term ‘must-haves’. Food, clothing and shelter are ‘must-haves’. The rest are ‘devices you desire’.

Good morning etymological skylarks. When you host a party do you (a) give it, (b) hold it, (c) throw it or (d) lay it on?

A sovereign cough remedy keeps being recommended to me by my more rural Cumbrian parishioners. Slice an onion, coat it in sugar, leave for several hours then knock back the resulting ‘syrup’. Have any skylarks actually tried this?

Two more sleeps to the next Archbishop of Canterbury …

Couldn’t have put it better myself 😊

The debate about whether to ‘recognise’ Palestine is a pure post modern classic. The answer doesn’t seem to depend on whether it exists or not but on how we feel about it. 🤔

Don’t let anyone tell you that cats are fastidious. I just watched one snarf down a live mouse followed by the remains of the jam tart I’d put out for the birds 🤢

Good morning, churchy skylarks. Is racism the fuel behind recent church growth? Is your church filling up with right wing nationalists? Is the Quiet Revival about to become noisy?

Good morning Skylarks. Is it too early to enquire about pumpkins, how they’re swellin’, will there be a glut or a shortage this year etc

This wins the internet today 😆

Good evening Skylarks. Is there anyone out there who’ll own up to having eaten a doggy ice cream by mistake? (And before you ask, no, I haven’t !)

What could possibly go wrong?

An evening stroll to the top of Sale Fell 😊

Good morning Skylarks. Week got off to a good start? Have a coffee. Week got off to a bad start? Have a coffee. #coffee

Don’t come to the Lake District, it’s horrible here. All the inhabitants have webbed feet and bad breath, the sheep are feral and two of them can bring you down, and most of the food is radioactive. I recommend Cornwall.

A spider has been spinning a web in a corner of our bathroom for the last couple of weeks. This evening I looked and there are two of them. This is a love story ❤️

I confess I thought that Sydney Sweeney was the attorney who tried to help Trump rig the 2020 election. Couldn’t understand why she would be doing a jeans advert

‘Even if we die here, we will not leave.’ Christians have lived in the village of Taybeh, Ramallah since the time of Jesus.

“Recognise #Palestine while there is still land on which a state could be recognised,” the @archbishopofyork.org‬ told the Government this week, urging the UK to accelerate its planned recognition of a Palestinian state #gaza

Pub comes with a health warning 😳

This is worth a read

This made me smile

Good morning to all vicars with swifts nesting in the porch of their church. Still, I daresay it will scrape off

Posted a card first class on Sunday evening, arrived on Thursday morning. I remember when that used to be called second class 🧐

In studio last week. Thank goodness I was there to fix this.

Marrons glacés, Skylarks, yes or no?

Am I the only @churchofengland.org clergy person who’ll be preaching on the beginning of Ordinary Time rather than the beginning of the End Time this morning?

Elongate looks set to extend indefinitely 😆

A great teacher of the faith for which our heartfelt thanks.

I just read someone’s bio in which they described themselves as a ‘spokesmodel’ so that’s a career opportunity I wasn’t previously aware of 🤨

Last week Cumberland Council came along and fixed all the potholes in our road without being asked. Is this unusual?

I’m right there for a maple leaf shaped bottle of maple syrup 👍

Now where can I get one of these?