Well, apparently it was an inset day today. I did think the school run was quiet 🙄.

Would anyone please like to offer their thoughts on Yoto vs Tonies? I will be buying either second-hand and buying the toys/cards second hand as well.

Autumn leaves

I really want someone to ask me how I scratched my face so I can explain I was pretending to use a banana as a phone and the top of the banana turned out to be scratchy.

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Me: Darling, last week the swimming teacher said you did 10/10 listening. Do you think you could do that again this week? The Preschooler [proudly]: I’m going to do ten out of NINETEEN!

“It’s not sad that he died. He’s gone up to fly a kite with Jesus.” Clergy child watches Mary Poppins.

Do you ever lie awake wondering if you could have been a figure skating prodigy?

I read VOGUE so you don’t have to! Here’s what’s in with the high fashion crowd this season: 1 TIGHTS WITH NO TOPS just tights on their own 2 STANDING IN CORNERS 3 Standing on a giant plate 4 Crawling along the floor with one hand out and your head making contact with the floor. You’re welcome!

Pope Leo XIV: “Someone who says I'm against abortion but I'm in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life”

Imagine being so excited for the Aldi wooden toy event that you arrive two Thursdays early 😳.

Planning coffee with a baby mum I met… Her: And I go to this baby group in the morning as well do you want to come? Me: Wait no this is my one thing a day.

www.universitychurch.ox.ac.uk/events/littl... book launch tonight at the University Church, Oxford

Me: Goodnight, my love (hugs my 3 year old). 3 Year Old: I don’t like persons squeezing children.

Catholic private schools round the country are closing: my Alma Mater, Aton Convent and Our Lady’s Abingdon both closed this summer. But I’m carrying on the Catholic School energy at children’s church today, with a rousing rendition of “God said to Noah, there’s going to be a floody floody..”

Tobias is maintaining his perfect track record for enthusiastically participating in a free trial class and then, when I sign him up and pay the term’s fee, rolling on the floor crying and declaring I DON’T LIKE THIS.

Happy Hildegard of Bingen day to late bloomers! She didn’t start writing until she was 42. It’s not too late to pursue your dreams 🙂

Me, when I find a great babysitter: Thanks, this has been great. We should do this again sometime. The babysitter: Actually I’m moving to New Zealand on Friday. Kind of reminds me of back when I was dating!

My childhood self cannot cope with the fact that someone on our local facebook page is giving all this away for free.

Question: it‘s well established that it’s a racist/xenophobic microaggression to ask someone where they’re from. But if someone you are chatting to alludes to being from another country, e.g. mentions they always used to cook with a particular herb that doesn’t grow in this country 1/2

#writeCBC She ran her hand through the soft balls of cotton socks. One felt jagged. The sharp corner of a cardboard photograph was sticking out. She carefully unpeeled the image from its innocuous wrapping. It was a grainy, black-and white-picture of a child. She held it up towards the light.

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You can't catch autism You can't become autistic You can't develop into an autistic person because of environmental or medical reasons It's not a disease Vaccines save lives, they do not create autistic people

As soon as Keir Starmer said Angela Rayner had his full support I knew she was toast.

Why are grey eyes not in the colour charts? Is it a type of blue? If my eyes are grey and my husband’s are hazel, how will our baby’s eyes turn out?

I saw someone genuinely irritated that Taylor Swift fans are having some moments of joy these last couple of days despite the horrors of the world, I want to reassure that person that when the Taylor Swift fans are done having their joy the horrors will still be there, don't worry, they can catch up

7th century Reliquary of Theuderic, a masterpiece of silversmithing and cloissoné work. Good stuff. At Saint-Maurice d'Agaune.

‘Swift explained that she wrote the album while on her Eras Tour and would frequently return to Sweden while performing concerts in Europe, in order to record it’. As a former over achiever, this hit me in my core.

These surveys stress me out. I’m not Roman Catholic, obviously. But Protestant doesn’t really cover it either. Where is Via Media? 😭

best prayerbook, best hymnbook, best buildings, least problematic leaders* since 1900 or so, good on gender, good on sexuality if you're American, good on racism, not as boring as Quaker meetings and unlike the Methodists you get actual wine. *I'm not saying *un*-problematic

Me: If a stranger came and said he lost his dog, and could you help, what would you say? The preschooler: NO! Me: Great. And if he asked you to come to his car and he would give you some sweets what would you say? TP: Yes! That was when I realised my child is not streetwise. Just unhelpful. 😬

The preschooler: Bees make honey. Me: That’s right. The preschooler: And chickens make chicken. Me: Uh…

This week, I’ve been called both Bish and Padre!

Sorry I’m late, a wasp flew into my mouth while I was cycling and stung my throat and died there.

I am carrying the baptism jug and bowl through church. Everyone (panicking): Is there a baptism today? Me: Don’t worry we’re baptising a little doll. Everyone: (mishearing, the panic intensifying). A little DOG? She’s baptising a LITTLE DOG!

L: Vegetable oil to teach about baptism in Godly Play tomorrow at SMV. R: Actual oil of Chrism blessed by the bishop and borrowed from Merton college by Andy for a wedding blessing. A nice moment giving a glimpse of our similar yet different roles fortuitously ending up side by side one evening.

I popped into the card shop after work today and purchased an anniversary card for my husband and a new house card for my friend. I was surprised to discover that two greetings cards is now £11. Anyway, when I got home I realised I actually bought two anniversary cards, hence the steep price. 1/2

I realised why the setting of Slow Horses is familiar. It’s because the office is full of boxes and I was recently responsible for the church office being filled with boxes due to an overly enthusiastic response to my request for cardboard for a craft activity.

Happy Mary, Martha and Lazarus day! Which one are you feeling most like to day? Sometimes I’m Martha but with all the jet lag of a recent trip I’m channeling Lazarus today 😁.

English is hard. Doing some phonics with the preschooler. Heard him walking round the house saying: “U…N. UN! Onion!”

You can miss me with the whole "sky daddy" routine that people use to mock other people's faiths. Religion isn't for everyone--and maybe it isn't for you. That's fine!

I try to sort of have Karen energy but the positive version where I leave excellent reviews and email companies to tell them how great members of staff have been.

I was in the US for a week and at no point did anybody say, ‘Ma’am, this is a Wendy’s.’

Headteacher: And what would we like Reverend Sorrel to know about our school? Maybe something about our vision and values? Child: If there’s a bush with a wasp in it you should stay away.

I may not be as successful as Emma Watson, but have I received a speeding fine while travelling through Oxford today? No. Was I cycling? Mostly.

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I sat at the back of the bus in the middle today like the coolest person ever and then the bus stopped and I lurched forward and banged my head and the universe is telling me I’m not welcome there.

I think I’m reading too many psychological thrillers. Putting the books away at church after morning prayer… ‘I’m a priest putting the books away! This is always the bit they show in the TV shows!’