Oh yes please! Could we also vote for the microphone to be turned off the second a head of state starts talking absolute idiocy?’

I’m vicar of a large (HUGE) parish with not quite enough ministers and financial stress to sort. Sometimes we get a bit tired. And then sometimes we celebrate the patronal festival of one of the churches with a new hymn entirely composed in house and then we cheer on the lovely faithful member

“Patriots love their country. Nationalists hate their neighbours” Love this from Tim Farron!

Not sure if I have any gymnerds over here but YES ABI MARTIN!!!

Dear C of E. You know when we say survivors find it hard to trust you? There was no need to provide yet another reason… www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Finally deactivated X on the basis that A. I’m not sure I like who I am when I use it and B. I probably have better things to do with my time than argue with people. Help me out friends, who do I need to follow, who is on here,and how does it already feel cleaner than The Other Place?

In the hopes of finding gymternet fans here away from the madness… Watching Utah the other night. Amalie Morgan’s bars and Grace McCullum on beam are just poetry…

I wish more people would realize that struggling with poverty and homelessness is not a moral failure. So many people look down on them for their struggles without realizing they're just one bad unforseen circumstance away from the same thing happening to them www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

It never fails to fascinate me that the denizens of twitter can read so damned much into what I haven’t actually said… I have loved twitter, but at the moment it feels like the gymternet is the only reason to stay. Is there a Bluesky equivalent?

It has been a horrid week, so escaping here has been a bit of a rescue for my mental health. In the spirit of that, I give you my gorgeous oldest offspring. Who has had an absolutely awful couple of years in and out of education, before finding a school that really gets him.

Turns out playing UNO NoMercy in this incredibly neurodivergent household is…quite the experience.

Had gone rather quiet in here, but gosh, isn’t it a bit of a relief to have somewhere away from the worst excesses of the other place?!

Whilst I’m not sure there are a lot of advantages to having been ill for a while, it was rather lovely to see my beloved children to school and then come home and nap…

I am going home!!!!!

I’m in hospital at the moment and just walked into the chapel to hear someone on the piano playing “oh love that wilt not let me go”… And now I am in puddles in the chapel (I love this hymn so much) but feeling very held.

Oooh, the SCM Press summer sale. Good for my heart, horrendous for my wallet.

I am very bored and desperately missing Greenbelt, so sharing brighter things to make me smile. Wild horses!

Post surgery painkiller influenced dreams are WILD. I can work out where the bits about Greenbelt and Walsingham came from in my subconscious. But Greece (the musical?!) I’d never before thought about Greece at Walsingham before, but…

I just came across a fun slang version of “feeling like a fish out of water” from Rome dialect, which is me sento come Batman ar compleanno de li puffi. It means “I feel like Batman at a Smurfs’ birthday party”

Am I the last person in the world to discover the Libby app? Game changer!

If there’s one bonus of having been ill all summer, I have just realised I’ve avoided preaching the summer of bread…

I have to ask, am I missing something? Is a heart shaped cleavage a good thing?

I’ve always found the sea incredibly grounding. Just dropped eldest off at his sailing course, which involved taking a ferry. I used to think getting places by ferry was impossibly exotic, I love that I get to do this now!

Currently trying to work out how many books I need to take for a hospital stay, because what if I run out? The sky will actually fall…

Gosh. It's rather lovely to have been flicking through this for a good half an hour and not finding any blatant racism or misogyny!