Philippa Rooke

"This is about the individual learning, the social, the personal, the community enhancements that come when young people are allowed to discover themselves, discover the world around them" - Baroness Deborah Bull. It's time to address #TheStateoftheArts! @ccmpswarwick

SOS Pilgrimage completed! Thank you so much to all of you who supported me, physically and/or financially, over the last week and more. If you planned to sponsor me and haven't yet done so here's the link: stmartinchelsfield.org.uk/pilgrimage

Day 5 of pilgrimage done. One day to go! Huge thanks to Shirley & Sue for walking with me & David, Caroline, Gwen & Marion for meeting me for lunch and walking out to greet me. And so are all those who have sponsored me - over £3000 raised so far!! stmartinchelsfield.org.uk/pilgrimage

Day 4 completed - only 20 miles to go! Huge thanks today to walkers Anne, Liz, Peter & Chris, and Shirley & family for literally & figuratively picking me up at the end, and looking after me tonight. stmartinchelsfield.org.uk/pilgrimage

Day 3 done - now half way! Huge thanks to Jackie, Steve, Sue, Harriet, Caroline, Michael, Chris and Teddy the dog for walking with me today, and to Anne & Jackie for supporting us at lunch. Onward! stmartinchelsfield.org.uk/pilgrimage

End of Day 2 - Wrotham to Rochester Cathedral- we made it! Huge thanks to great walking companions @RevJMW, Richard, Rupert & Nink in mostly awful weather. @SMASCH1 @ChelsfieldStMar stmartinchelsfield.org.uk/pilgrimage

Made it! First day of Save Our Spire pilgrimage finished at St George's Wrotham. Thankful for companions who kept me going, thank you friends. Sponsor me here bit.ly/sospilgrimagei…

Morning @TfL - Stop M in Eldred Drive Orpington is temp shut but no signage. People keep missing 353 which now stops round the corner. Can your team fix please?

In a week's time I'll be walking...walking...on the first day of my fundraising walk from Chelsfield to Canterbury for our spire appeal and Christian Aid. Join me and / or sponsor me! stmartinchelsfield.org.uk/pilgrimage.html

@kcacrofficial to all my Kent ringing friends - I start this two weeks today, please support me if you can stmartinchelsfield.org.uk/pilgrimage.html

Two years after I wrote an object analysis on him, while studying at home at the height of Covid, I finally come face to face with Bacchus at NT Angelsey Abbey - though not where I expected him to be! @Amanda_Vickery

@PatrickNeylan @ZaltzCricket @bbctms Wild guess - 1938/9?

Not a standard @ZaltzCricket stat, but when was the last time a) Australia and b) England last travelled to an Ashes tour by sea? @bbctms #bbccricket

@ChelsfieldStMar @revsusan5 @SMASCH1 I have a horrible feeling this means it's the churchwardens' turn next year 😆

What a trouper @revsusan5 was! And Rev Michael for taking the first shift. It was a great day, and we have more this afternoon with cream teas in the Rectory Garden 2.30-4.30pm @SMASCH1

At Orpington @ODEONCinemas watching #ROHcinderella - absolutely fantastic performances & so lovely to hear the wonderful score magnificently played

@virginiaqmw Well done him for looking forward!

My 94 year old father decided today that he needed a computer tablet! He has resisted a mobile phone for years.

Hive mind time - can anyone give me references in literature to servants going home to see their mother on Mothering Sunday? Thank you!

2 years after completing my History degree I finally see a picture by Courbet at the @AshmoleanMuseum instead of on screen and it brings it all back! Thank you @asciampacone for all you did for us in those tough times

@virginiaqmw Very good plan! We did train both ways to Marseilles as a trial run for Sicily. I'm currently in Oxford, train here & back. Finally seen the Pitt Rivers Museum!

@Flipringer Train out, and fly back from more distant places is my current flying reduction strategy. Last year we did train out and back to Marseilles and ditto to Bordeaux, but train out to Milan and then flew back. (We were catching up on missed holidays in 2020 & 21, so extra holidays.

Also see website called Man in Seat 61 for a mass of helpful advice.

@virginiaqmw We went all the way by train, including staying in the carriage on the ferry! It was a bit of a haul but worth it for the views of the Amalfi coast. We did fly back though...

@Flipringer Did you go all the way by train to Sicily or get ferry from Naples ? Love Sicily, but trying to reduce flying. We once got Naples ferry overnight and it worked very well.