Ben Fuller

@RevThomasSander Time to introduce a rectory cat?

Rectory mouse 🐭

@churchofengland Huge thanks to Rev Catherine Williams, & St Martin's Voices @StMartinsVoices & all involved for the Daily Prayer App, beautifully led, sung, produced & recorded every day. A great resource!

Today's online service comes from the Chapel of Lambeth Palace, in collaboration with the Daily Prayer Audio App. This service celebrates five years of Daily Prayer and is led by Rev Catherine Williams, with St Martin's Voices. Join us at cofe.io/ThirdSundayOfL….

From today’s Times. Cover price of a print copy of The Times in 2016: £1.50. Today: £3.20.

The King is head of the Church of England. It has 26 bishops in the House of Lords. And yet the CoE still gets away with treating gay people as second-class citizens....and the big money wants to keep it that way. @ThinkAnglicans prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/religion…

@fm5782 @ListerLawrence Thanks & yes, consensus seems to be to keep the 7.5 & then move on to something else entirely in time.

@benjaminfuller @ListerLawrence 320i petrol granted its 3 years old but not to bad on the run to work managing 54mpg. I had the 7.5 golf trust me keep yours bombproof 👍

Right, I need to buy a brand new auto car for around £25-26k for our new pool car. I’m between these 3. Which is your preference?

@fm5782 @ListerLawrence Out of interest why was the Golf 8.5 horrendous? People say it solved some of the problems of Golf 8. I still love my Golf 7.5 & wonder whether to look at swapping up to an 8.5. And which Beemer did you go for instead?

@ListerLawrence From my experience stay away from the 8.5 golf it’s horrendous, I kept mine for 5 months and traded it in for a BMW 👍

@philatrail @AvantiWestCoast .@ListerLawrence’s @AvantiWestCoast Breakfast looks a lot better than the ones on the ECML. Proper eggs, freshly cooked! 👏👏

Have to say that @AvantiWestCoast first class breakfast looks, er, first class!

29 miles travelled in just 47 minutes. Wow, an incredible 35 mph! Who knew inter-city trains could move that fast?!

@Motor1com 💯Hard agree! This was mine 😍 #Volvo

few things are as poetic as the rear of a volvo c30

It was a privilege to pay homage to His Majesty The King at Buckingham Palace. I give thanks for His Majesty’s deep Christian faith, demonstrated in his life of service to our nation and the Commonwealth. I was conscious today of having paid homage to the King's late mother, Queen Elizabeth II, when I became Bishop of London. I am grateful for his support of the Church of England as I now begin this new ministry as the Archbishop of Canterbury.

@MichaelSadgrove An understandable decision, however your wisdom, beautiful photos & regular insights into & reminders of the things which really matter in life will be missed. All best wishes . Ben

I’m no longer active on social media. It’s been a great adventure. I’ve learned a lot & valued it highly, especially engaging with friends old & new. But in older age I want to spend less time on screens…. Thank you for being such stimulating fellow-travellers down the years.

Tomorrow, the first female Archbishop of Canterbury finally takes up the role after a year of vacancy Who is Sarah Mullally and what challenges lie ahead for her? I try to answer this on @TheTimes podcast (Producer: @oliviacase1 Presenter: @ManveenRana) pod.link/1501716010/epi…

The memorial being equestrian isn't the problem, its declinist lack of ambition is. The US is building a huge arch for its 250th birthday, we're building a modest statue for world history's longest-serving woman ruler. It should be a 70m-tall architectural monument in Green Park.

A letter from today’s ⁦@thetimes⁩ with some fine courtroom humour…

@Tarka_Man And there are all those IC125s just off duty say in a siding🤦‍♂️😥

Blimey! Paddington to Cardiff on a 387...GWR scraping the barrel

@TedWelford Almost as lovely as Mazda’s Soul Red Crystal metallic!

@benjaminfuller Grenadine Red. It is an option but not one of the expensive Exclusive colours. Think it’s about £750 off the top of my head

Forgot to do a proper sign-off for what will probably be the best long-term car I will ever have (and the last diesel). Ridiculously comfortable on air and tremendous for my long commute and airport runs. Grew to love Audi’s new interior design and attracted so many compliments

Somehow, at some point in the last few years it has become acceptable to publicly mock trans people. This isn’t about vulnerable women’s spaces, or women’s sport, it’s about delighting in declaring your disgust for a tiny minority of other humans and it has to stop.

my favorite vw trope is when they build a car that looks like an audi, is priced like an audi, and is as nice as an audi, and then it doesn't sell because people just buy the audi instead

@adrianfclarke @benjaminfuller I think the XJ40 got away with it, trading on its woody leatheriness, and being a low volume car from a tiny manufacturer. Jag's real trouble was when they tried to tackle German rivals head on, but lacking the resources, not least the muscle to offer competitive finance deals.