Lads Mags in the Church Times

For those of you who don’t subscribe to the Church Times (which I confess includes me and the Vicar), their article about my success in getting a local Asda to move lads mags to the top shelf can now be seen on the web. I think the cartoonist has captured my furious look rather well. [...]

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Vicar’s wife job description

This was a search term that recently led someone to my blog. So I thought maybe I could start by drawing one up as I go along over the next twelve months. I’ll try and make it a regular feature. If you’re reading and also doing the same job, I’d love to have your contributions [...]

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Mistaking the Vicar

The other week we were visiting the vicarage, sorting a few things out before the move. The (then) Curate was doing some practical jobs wearing his allotment jeans, his hoodie and his beanie and was outside the house. A lady walked by and smilingly said to him You’ll need to get a move on with [...]

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Local

Soon after we were married, the Curate and I spent some time living in South East Asia. A few months ago we enjoyed seeing friends from both Malaysia and Singapore. When Lawstudent came to visit us, we were excitedly reminiscing about our time in Kuala Lumpur, where we’d known him as he was growing up. [...]

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The Vicar’s Wife’s Lent Book

The Archbishop of Canterbury has one, so why not me, eh? I’m such an Anglican! Actually, the Curate has chosen a book to read be read by members of our new church over Lent. And I’m going to read along too, although I probably won’t be able to make the evening meetings when they discuss [...]

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The Bible and Literature

I’ve got this post scheduled for today and another tomorrow so the computer can go in its box…. In the meantime, check your knowledge of the bible and English literature on the BBC website. I heard a chap on the Today programme on Tuesday talking about how the lack of basic bible knowledge meant that [...]

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A great phrase

The Curate used to play golf fairly regularly with a local policeman. The policeman had a wonderful phrase to describe a character with whom he had had too many professional dealings. He’s a bad bag of washing

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Complaining – more press interest

In the midst of piling clothes into big boxes and hunting for missing library books, I had a phone call from the Church Times yesterday afternoon. They’d been reading the article about my success in getting lads mags put on the top shelf in a local Asda store and were interested to know more about [...]

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Moving – how to know it’s time

It was the final two days at our old school last Thursday and Friday. The Queen wore a skirt to school. With her remaining two pairs of navy tights. Both mornings she fell over on the way there, ripped her tights and skinned her knees. I think it may be time to move to a [...]

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The hazards of masala chai

I love the strong, sweet and spiced Indian drink known as masala chai – spiced tea. Usually I go round to my friend Starstudent’s. She makes great masala chai. I normally visit her and have two mugfuls of the delicious drink. I always visit in the morning. You make masala chai by boiling your water [...]

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