edwardrhbarlow.bsky.social
Vicar. #DoctorWho Fan. Knitter. Dad to #SEND/PDA child. Husband. Non-Driver. #Philosophy graduate. Former RE Teacher. #AcousticNeuroma.
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Well it does look like a George Cross with a squint...
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What we need are Safe Routes.
With a system for assessment and registration at beginning and end.
But we can't call them "Safe Routes" because boggle-eyed racists will interpret that as "open flood-gates"...
...And the downside of democracy is that boggle-eyed racists get a vote...
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How many places do you go with unplanned indoor water features?!
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I'd assumed that was Anita Dobson doing whatever she damn well wanted...
I mean, would you try and stop her?
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Admittedly when I saw Listerine on the list, I thought it might just be a clever way of telling GB News viewers they had bad breath...😁
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These are beautiful!
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We move it around the four churches each year. It's particularly useful when (as is the case this year) Ascension falls in the Half Term Holiday when lots of people are away...
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Sometimes those committees spawn subcommittees - like polyps...
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This is the Church of England. Everything has to be done by committee, usually comprising of the sort of personalities that *really like being on committees*...
...Best case scenario there'll be quiche...
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I think that seems sensible: The act of remembrance with the boats would have prepared them to be with everyone at the funeral.
... Providing those boats didn't end up blocking a sewage outlet pipe, causing a build-up thay would later result in poo-gate...?
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And for those of us in a Team Ministry with a number of clergy vacancies, also the location!
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This case does sound very traumatic for the child.
One of the balances we have to find is weighing up the difficulty of the funeral with the difficulty of one of the later questions (and there will be later questions) being "why wasn't I there?"
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It's up there with the line I've had thrown at me before;
"If we hadn't entered the War, you'd be speaking German!"
To which the response is,
"If you hadn't entered the war, we'd all be ruled by fasc... Oh..."
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I live in an area where ULEZ is a big talking point, so being open about not driving at all lays my cards on the table. It's a transparency thing.
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Oh dear...
1:A quick glance at the thread will evidence that you were the one causing conflict.
2:People are entitled to block whomever they want.
3:This post and your subsequent screenshots about me are an overreaction what should be an amicable disagreement.
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It's always case-by-case and the family's call not mine. But my default is to reassure because the last thing I want is any sort of sense that children aren't welcome in the church.
If the family don't want to bring the child then we'll talk about other ways for them to remember and grieve.
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Except Conclave skipped the discussions and went straight to the voting!
You've seen how long it takes the CofE to decide stuff by Committee!
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You're not even trying to read what I'm saying now, are you?
I thought this was the sort of online behaviour we'd left behind on Twitter...
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Yikes! There's tonnes of them!
I assume we're not expecting an outcome any time soon...
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And I don't think that would be a reason in itself for taking Martha along, but it would be a welcome side-effect of her presence.
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Except that those who are more likely to erupt are also more likely to moderate their behaviour around Martha, which is another positive impact of inviting children to funerals...
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In fact, in this scenario, I reckon Martha probably won't process it as much more than a family get-together, but as everyone adores her then she'll have an uplifting impact that will take everyone's focus off the will...
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I'm going to respectfully disagree on this; in my experience I've taken a great number of funerals with children present and their presence has been entirely positive, both for them and the adults in attendance.
#TheArchers
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Nothing's too meta, or too in-jokey for @bigfinish.bsky.social!
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Bet no one's thought of the haunted mosaic trope, but where the Mosaic in question is the mid-1990s Web Browser...
(Gosh, you can smell static just looking at that picture, can't you?)
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That would be an important point if you did one about the Headless Horseman's involvement in the Findus Lasagne Scandal 0f 2013...
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Has anyone done one where the Headless Horseman has settled down to a middle class suburban life and drives his Headless Daughter to her riding lessons in a 4 Wheel Drive that's marginally wider than the lane to the stables?
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Several hours of overtime Sports coverage, pushing back the episode indefinitely.
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One of the lessons I think I learned as we rebuilt numbers after Lockdown, is that a small-medium congregation of people who want to attend is ultimately preferable to a medium-large congregation of people who are there on sufferance...
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It is a very nice mug...
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It's something that becomes a sticking point in liturgy as well, there's a mindset that says "but people don't understand it!", so some clergy insist on explaining *everything* as they go along...
But the collateral damage to that is the dramatic flow of the ritual.
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