At last, some positive pothole news.

#TinyJoys 🥰

Spectacular jelly ear fungus! ❤️ #MushroomMonday

I have been kindly gifted a cassock that mostly fits. It has no care label but it via someone else who stuck it through the washing machine and it’s survived, so I think I can assume it’s synthetic. It’s not unlike school blazer material. I don’t own a streamer. Can I iron any creases out??

The church of St Martin-on-the-Walls, #Wareham, #Dorset, dating back to 1020. The wall paintings, depicting scenes from the life of St Martin of Tours, are 12th century. Did you know that Martin's cloak (which he cut in half to give to a beggar) is the origin of the words 'chaplain' and 'chapel'?

That’s how you do it 💪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Cleopatra lived closer in time to 'yeet' being in the dictionary than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

I checked and I can have up to 10% extra. So… 2,690 🥳 I will actually keep looking in case I can find a few more to trim, but I relieved to have arrived at this point.

In a deep irony, if you click on the link the old CofE Disability and Church podcast that describes it’s aim as equipping us ‘to be inclusive and welcoming to all’, you get a page that says in big letters, ‘Access denied.’ Well, quite…

Very important thread.

Spoken like a true missionary of many years.

Am looking for accounts of conversations that changed you. Anything?

Someone has sent me a talk an m4a. Is there a way to play that on a Mac, or am I going to need a converter?

With thanks to @jamesdaustin.bsky.social for sharing. Resharing with alt text for all to enjoy.

Tom Robinson* at a local-ish community arts centre in June? Don’t mind if we do! *not to be confused with Tommy Robinson. I’d love to be wrong but I can’t quite see him on stage singing ‘Glad to be Gay’.

In case you still need some suggestions for Lent: Be kind. And three ways to do it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=90g8...

You’re told to apply for a new blue badge 8 weeks before it expires under our new county. We applied in November, but the local council you have to allow them 12 weeks. That leaves us without a badge for 4 weeks. If you call they are rude an say it isn’t their problem.

For some light relief, please enjoy Phyllis swatting up on her skiing technique. Don’t anyone tell her we have a dry slope up the road, I’ve no time in my schedule to take her for lessons just now. #TinyJoys

I’ve been gradually chipping away at a word count since the 15th. I need 2,500 words. 600-ish words to go. 4,374 3,932 3,826 3,.667 3,444 3,486 3,293 3,124

College provides us with a license for Word online, for which I am very grateful. I do not love the habit it has when you are midway through a sentence and pop! The web page reloads completely blank. What’s that about?!

Still some places left on the first of these Creative Quiet Day, if anyone is looking for a space to reflect and pray and chat, this coming Saturday. "Finding God in Threads and Patches"

Happy Lunar New Year to those who celebrate!

Wishing everyone a very happy #ShroveTuesday #PancakeDay! 🥞 Last year, over £900,000 of the grants we provided were for general living expenses and energy costs, including milk, eggs and the electricity and gas needed to cook food. No clergy household should struggle to afford the essentials.

After touring three different garages, the last was kind enough to jack the car up. Mechanic said he reckoned it was just rust on the break pads where the car had been standing for a bit. Zero charge. Need to pop back with some chocolates next time we’re passing. Good to know of an honest garage.

Churches Together in England @churchesengland.bsky.social is delighted to welcome Archbishop Richard Moth as the new President representing the Catholic Bishops' Conference (England and Wales) cte.org.uk/archbishop-m... Photo: © Mazur/cbcew.org.uk #ChurchesTogether

We are so fortunate to have hospice care in the UK. Ordinary people doing extraordinary things, every day, to help people make the very best of the time they have remaining.

Ah, it seems I am now at the ‘car is making a bumping noise when driving at a low speed’ stage of ownership :/ Yay. Best identify a suitable garage, I guess.

Bob has begun her next stage of training in laundry management.

Jesus did not die for the sake of traditional gender roles

What? No! How is this even a possibility?

"A local GP surgery said one in five children who contracted the illness had been admitted to hospital" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If you are in the UK and were born between 1970 and 1990 you may not have had enough doses of MMR vaccine to be protected from measles. Contact your GP to get a booster course for free. www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...

Eight years ago, I took myself away for a private retreat to a retreat house in Surrey as I began discerning my calling to the priesthood. I was planned to pray, and work through the Pray As You Go series on Mary’s fiat or ‘yes’ to God.

From start to finish, downloading a Word document of 948 words took 42 minutes 🫠

I have been using a computer since 1989 and trying to get a documents in and out of the Inspiration RD website reminds me of using a computer in about 1997. I keep expecting to bump into Publisher.

Happy Valentine's day and Happy Shrovetide. ❤️🕯

Dudes rock www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

New fun phrase of the day, ‘Thought-terminating cliche’. #TinyJoys (the learning a new thing part, not necessarily the thought-terminating cliché part!)

Just spotted my Reddit account had somehow become marked a NSFW 18yo+ 😂 I think the only things I’ve ever discussed on there are the cost of heating, food, and how to navigate Common Worship.

Church friends may find this article about #LLF this week at #Synod helpful viamedia.news/2026/02/13/l...

Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together. I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.

A minor outbreak of common sense. There’s a big difference between criminal activities which should be prosecuted and terrorism.

Dates now booked in both wok diaries for Greenbelt. We’ll need to stay off site, but it looking like we might make it this year 🥳

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Would you like to preorder a little treat for your future self? My book on loss, grief, & how we approach mourning comes out 24 weeks from today! If you like reading about how capitalism makes everything suck; why some losses are deemed more mournable; & how to support grievers in your life...

Straight out of the Trump handbook. Reform UK is threatening to defund a Welsh university simply because a debating society turned them down. Are they serious? https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/reform-uk-threatens-defund-welsh-33394278

The year 2026, and people still assume when I say I have a partner that: We are married. My partner is are a man. 🫠

PSA. The people asking for disabled poor people to "share" their experiences for their orgs to collect & use are not doing so out of the goodness of their hearts. Your experiences and insights have value - including monetary value. They get grants & build careers out of your suffering.