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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Thanks for clarifying that!
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I've known people who've had a similar turnaround for funerals in the states...
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And in that situation we'd have put the order of service together with emails and phone calls because the funeral director would want to have it at the printers' with plenty of time to spare!
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Which is *exactly* the uncertainty it would want you to have if it *was* a witch!
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Ah, the old "set it on fire and if it burns, it's a witch" method...
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Thank you!
I read it a few months back and was so absorbed into that chapter:
And because the Holy Spirit is a free bird, the Pentecost Sermon hit me at that point as well...
So I popped a few ideas in an email which I schedule-sent to my future self to arrive last Tuesday!
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You've named your Guinea Pigs after the Avengers?! 😀
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I'm tempted to steal "A triptych of toilet-trip-inducing turmoil" for Trinity Sunday next week! 😁
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Happy Birthday!
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Is that Terrence Hardiman endorsing those crackers?
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Sounds about right...
Enabling the viewers' headcanon to assume they're all the same story...
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Not impossible.
Remember how the Romans was filmed on the set of Carry on Cleo...
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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!