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@glamvicar Goodness, never occurred to me we were supposed to do that sort of stuff. My lot were abandoned, just like I was. Bad mummy, haha!

31 meal portions cooked and frozen for uni son. A little bit of home when the going gets tough.

@DrFrancisYoung And even in the Diocese doesn't the Bishop of Dover still live in Canterbury and do a lot of the Diocesan stuff?

What’s missed by everyone worrying that we don’t yet have an Archbishop of Canterbury is that, unless you’re in the Diocese of Canterbury, there’s *almost nothing* in the CofE which is formally held back or affected by not having an Archbishop. Nothing grinds to a halt

@JudithW59659151 @kayaburgess an interesting thought....

@kayaburgess Do we need an ABC??

Process to appoint next Archbishop of Canterbury is an "omnishambles" Took 17 days from Francis's death to elect Pope Leo XIV Six months after Welby announced resignation, CofE is yet to fill all spots on committee to name successor What's gone wrong: thetimes.com/uk/religion/ar…

A humble, unassuming individual with Peruvian roots who has worn a red hat up until now, you say?

@FatherTim They should play 'Pass the Mitre' and when the music stops.....

Anglicans really need to up their Archbishop of Canterbury announcement game.

@OrganistBarbie our choirpractice was always much shorter when Midsomer Murders was on!

@rmbastable Whereas when I hear 'could ye not watch with me one brief hour?' I think 'I've already been here an hour' and leave straight away when the service has ended. It gets us all differently....

For the last few years one of my churches has had a Watch of one hour after Mass. Often, by the end of that hour I was on my own. Last night we went until midnight. For the first hour we stayed in double figures. We never dipped below 4. At midnight we were 7. This feels good!

@MansfieldHerbal @MollyBoot1 That's what I thought too. Must be some Holy Week, I thought....

@MollyBoot1 At first glance I thought all that toilet roll was in your trolley 😂

Good to see the Church Times considers the launch of the @RSCMCentre Young Voices Toolkit to be front-page news. I agree!

Who was in the Tufty Club? Lovely vintage fashions and home haircuts on display, 1962.

‘Hosanna to the Son of David!’ Palm Sunday arrives at Portsmouth Cathedral.

I fucking knew it.

@OrganistBarbie I write down reminders on bits of paper, which I then proceed to lose all over the house.

@revpaulwhite I went to a service when the start was delayed due to this reason. The copies were still warm when they were given out.

My clergy nightmare came true this evening: big service with the bishop but no orders of service - rushed 3 miles home, amend service, print 30 copies, collate them and speed 3 miles back to church with only 10 mins before the service! Eek!

@FrGeorgeReeves I wish more priests would say, as part of a baptism service, that adults can get baptised too. I suspect more and more people were never baptised as children these days.

@MollyBoot1 Substitute surplices for amices for the story of my life.

@TheFigen_ A posse

A group of cats is called...?

@rickettspiano Great name for a small cat!

Kitties update: my view on opening my curtains. 3 sleepy felines! Solo is on the left and Piccolo in the middle. Piccolo is still much smaller but it isn't apparent in this photo as she is also closer!

@MichaelSadgrove @terratologist some of them of the age to be losing much loved grandparents already

‘Remember that you are dust, & to dust you shall return.’ I used to be moved when imposing ashes on the foreheads of young Cathedral choristers with these solemn words. I used to wonder: what do these boys & girls of tender age know of mortality? Or need to know? @terratologist

@Jairus_Girl I know, because I saw it too.

The delicate crescent moon has just pursued a bright wanderer (Venus?) in a slow, graceful arc across the window, fragmented by a bare tree. Glorious 😍 (Just wish I knew how to photograph it! You'll have to take my word)