Welshwoman in London. University administrator. Independent researcher (medieval anchorites). Anglican Reader (lay minister). Warden of Readers Diocese of Southwark.
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So, I'm asking folks in the area: if you know any doctors who live in Salem who recently took a Delta/KLM flight from PDX to Amsterdam and saved a vomit-covered dweeb from dying, please DM me so I can send him the biggest fruit basket the world ever did see.
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For some reason, this song takes me right back to being 15 ...
Oh, this is beautiful 🥰.
@dreadships.bsky.social - you may already be aware of this, but just in case ... !
Listening to Tom Lehrer's 'The Elements' on #BBCRadio3, I'm struck once again not just by the skill of the writing, but by the fact that he doesn't seem to need to breathe very often!
I'm sorry what - your wife is having brain surgery soon?! How did I miss this? I really hope all goes smoothly, for both of you.
Ooh, not nice - hope you feel better soon.
Ok this might spread into more than one message, but if you're able to share/help it would be appreciated. A Turkish Kurd is about to receive emergency housing for a week or so after an entire hotel of Asylum Seekers was turfed out of a hotel in Diss. Authorities are able to move his family...
While recognising your lapsed-ness, I feel I have to say: Preach it, sister!
I can't remember - was it you who posted a while ago that the responses of people with more than one child follow this pattern when they start crawling? With 1st child: *gushingly* Oh look, he's crawling! 🥰 With subsequent children: *horrified* Oh look, he's crawling! 🫣
Not mutually exclusive ...
I've been rewatching from the beginning, and I think one of the commentaries (possibly?) said that it was supposed to be coffee shop by day, club by night. Have to admit the first element doesn't come across that obviously ...
His whole speech about the smell of books, and the lack of smell of computers - I'm with him 100%!
You might have mentioned it, yes ...
It me ...
'Companion to the New Testament' edited by James Crossley & Michelle Fletcher (2024) is useful. Kinda does what it says on the tin, with short essays on themes, reception (historic and more modern), etc. Each essay has a bibliography for further reading, if you want/need to go further.
Yes - I've tended to understand that widening participation is about supporting and encouraging students to come to the institution, and EDI is about giving them (and staff) the best environment once they're here.
Maybe don't leave it so long until the next time?
I was trying to find out only a few weeks ago if it's possible to get Taybeh in the UK, so this is good news!
For your Saturday delight and delectation:
Also Glamorgan.
Is that us? It wouldn't surprise me if so ...
In our cycle of prayer, we pray this week for all who live, work or seek refreshment at Sarum College in Salisbury, and for all starting new courses there this autumn. Have you thought about expanding your horizons with further study? Find out more on sarum.ac.uk #prayer #retreat #theology
*good medieval drama, surely.
You might be interested in @lvhicks.bsky.social live-posting watching it, and @fantaloupe.bsky.social live-posting .@lvhicks.bsky.social watching it ...
I've already bought several. But in my my defence, I tend to get things in museum and other gift shops, when I'm there throughout the year.
On this Feast of St Bartholomew, we pray for all who 'with joy and boldness preach the gospel', and for strength that we may also be 'drawn to the fire of God's love'. Make time to pray with a retreat - promotingretreats.org #prayer #retreat
Oooh, ouch ...
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Sorry to hear that this term's likely to be brutal, Charlotte - let me know if there's anything I could do to help (or make it less brutal!).
Saturday stat: there have been two Test players with the surname Root, but all 13,543 runs by players of that name have come from the same one. The other was Fred Root (no known relation), who holds his own unique distinction as the only player to appear in as many as 3 Tests without ever batting.
Root had a long and successful county career, first with Derbyshire, then Worcestershire. Part of his time with the former overlapped with that of George Beet; against Sussex in 1913 they created a piece of cricketing poetry when the opposing captain Bertie Chaplin was dismissed "c Beet b Root".
So sorry to hear this, Madeline. I hope that lots of good memories will give you all strength and comfort at this time. 🕯️
I realise that the answer may well be 'because', but - why??!!??!!
I'll have walked past those doors, but I never knew that's what they were!
As I observed to someone yesterday, my phone struggles to connect to eduroam in my office on campus, but had no problem at all in the hospital 150 miles away where I was accompanying my mother for an outpatient appointment. (You can play 'spot the teaching hospital' by checking if eduroam works ...)
Okay, this is perhaps not the best way to organise such things but I've gone through the usual list of people. If any of you bluesky CofE clergy have PTO in the Diocese of London and are free on Sun 31st Aug in the morning please get in touch? I'm trying to find cover for two services. ✝️ #CofEPeeps
I hope that, unwanted as it is, it means that you get today's yuckiness out of the way first thing, and the rest of the day is much better.
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Congratulations to Laura on both achievements!!
[Alt-text: a photo of a sleeping baby otter, curled up in the palms of someone's hands.]
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I mean, I'm biased, but Dad does look smart in a bow tie.
My dad, a retired priest, doesn't get to church these days (issues with his and my mother's mobility), but when he did he'd wear a suit and a bow tie on Sundays.
Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus (Phil 4.6-7). Where might you pray? promotingretreats.org
It might need to go in for the last five minutes, I think!
When they call them baby potatoes, they're not wrong!
I'll have to look out for that one. I tried the ginger one as an alternative to elderflower, which can get a bit ubiquitous, and it's doing nicely in this weather.
Bottle Green's ginger "with a hint of lemongrass" is rather nice.
Maybe having President Gavin would be OK if he was accompanied by Vice-President Stacey (Abrams)?
It's the 'clunk' of the stump that really makes it - I could listen to that on repeat.
Very well done to him! I'm sure you're a very proud (and relieved?!) mum.
Very well done to him! I hope you're a very proud (and relieved?!) mum.
The main antagonists for most of Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 6 are a trio of nerds, and at one point they spend time trying to work out the plural of nemesis, because they maintain that they're Buffy's nemesises/nemeses/whatever (iirc; I haven't got that far in the re-watch yet).
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Or, when singing it, a very slight pause!
A former colleague of mine had a theory that Thomas Cranmer ("both our hearts") was a Time Lord.
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I also very much doubt that the school is "the first in the UK where NONE of the children's first language is ENGLISH" - but then as far as TR is concerned England = UK, so the existence of schools in other parts of the UK where all pupils' first language is Welsh, or Gaelic, just won't register.
@drfrancisyoung.bsky.social - for you, or could you suggest someone?
It's like when the AA called itself "the fourth emergency service" (for its members). As someone who grew up on the south Wales coast, with an island-at-high-tide nearby, this ignoring of the Coastguard (the *actual* fourth emergency service, where we were) rather narked me.
Although if someone at the university where I work has figured out how to be in more than one place at the same time, I'm somewhat annoyed that they seem to be keeping it to themselves and not sharing this valuable skill with the rest of us.
How?!?!
I wouldn't like to presume, but I imagine that it's not often you get told you're "too young" for something in the Church of England ... !
Ok, I am trying to help Pa B purchase a 3000 litre rainwater tank for his garden irrigation I cannot find one in Scotland, and the suppliers in Lincolnshire want £300 to deliver one WHO SELLS BIG RAINWATER TANKS IN EAST SCOTLAND? OR anywhere in Scotland. Have trailer, can collect if needs be
That almost makes you question whether these people are fit to be parents ... 😆 But good to know that you stepped up and redeemed the situation.
My sister, who has accumulated a number of god-children, almost always gives "Dogger" (unless the parents are one step ahead of her).
As it happens, I read Witch Wood recently (I think possibly because you'd mentioned it, Jo), and yes it's a bit heavy-going in places, but really does have considerable resonances with white American Evangelical Christianity in the early 21st century. Which is worrying ...
Agree on both points, although if I had to pick a favourite Hannay novel, it would be Mr Standfast. (Of the others, I'd single out Castle Gay, The House of the Four Winds, and The Courts of the Morning.)
And the annoying thing is that The 39 Steps isn't even Buchan's best novel.
Oh, it does (or did - I haven't had cause to check recently!), but it was a nightmare to handle.
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We are delighted to be partnering with the @englishchamberorchestra on our Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Minifestival, marking the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth. 🎶🎻 Tickets can be purchased through tinyurl.com/sct15 (General Admission £15/ Student £5)
But unfortunately, a powerful and dangerous idiot.
So sorry to hear this, and I hope you have many treasured memories of Freya.
"Delusionally optimistic"? Sorry, what?
Some may remember that not only are not all Palestinians Muslims, but places like Bayt Lahm (Bethlehem) & an-Nāṣira (Nazareth) are Palestinian towns. In the 80s, South African theologians produced a profound piece of resistance theology called the Kairos Document. This is Kairos Palestine:
I am the very model of a modern coast guard general I've information migratory, nautical yet mythical I know the fash in England and I invent facts hysterical From migrant boats to climate too, in manner unforgivable
Homer Simpson's supposed to be 36?!?! Ooof, that guy's seen/been through some stuff ...
I remember about 25 years ago being driven up the Sani Pass (between South Africa and Lesotho) in an open-sided jeep-type vehicle, and thinking "when I get home, it might be time to make a Will ...".
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What's that, staff cats, Monty and Misty? You want to remind eligible clergy households that they can apply for an Emergency Grant towards vet bills, that aren't covered by insurance? 🐾 This #InternationalCatDay, find out more: www.clergysupport.org.uk/pets
Oh, it's a big deal, I get that (I mean, *how* has Joe Root got 13,500 Test runs but not a century in Australia?), but yes, rehashing the same trash talk every time is getting annoying now.
I do wonder whether McGrath feels by now that he has to predict 5-0 every time, even if he doesn't actually think that's the case, because that's what everyone (especially the Australian media) expects.
I hope it all works out - I would imagine there's quite a lot of us eagerly looking forward to Chaos Puppies! (You, having to deal with it, maybe not so much ...)
Do I, or any of you, know anybody who has worked or is working on the household of Juana of Castile (1479-1555)?
We believe that the the game of cricket must be played with the spirit of a Viking warrior, the humility of a sheep farmer, and the precision of a mathematician calculating Duckworth-Lewis in a snowstorm.
You've mentioned before about hoping to have at least one litter of puppies at some point, so do you have any specific plans to breed her in the near future, or is it a case of "when we've got the headspace needed and nothing else major is going on", and just hope she's not too old by then?
I hear ya ...
Were you intending to? In which case, well done! If not, oops ...
Immediate thoughts: Kerensa Briggs, Gloucester Service. Gibbons, Short Service (always).
I will *never* apologize for a post
Am watching the livestream (in between w*rking) - is there a slope at The Gnoll, or is the camera slighlty squiff?
Oh yes!
do you know about the bankthefood app? if you tell it your closest food bank, it will buzz when you’re near one of their collection points and tell you what they’re most in need of (and you can tell it what you’ve bought for them, so that gets updated in real time)
Mine too:
Not a medical person, but in the UK you (hypothetical you, of course) can get advice from the NHS via 111.nhs.uk/triage/check.... The advice seems to be to have tetanus boosters about every 10 years, so it might depend more on when the last one was administered, not on when it expired.