DIY Holiday Club – A Great Day Out

At our previous church, the Vicar and I were involved in regular holiday clubs. We’d have around 25 kids from the church and church school attending and a team of about 10 from church leading and helping. Most of our holiday clubs lasted just a day, although we sometimes did a three day one. They [...]

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Sunday Morning Viewing in the Vicarage

Our kids don’t watch much telly. In fact, we don’t even have a TV licence, though we have a whole cabinet of dvds. They watch it in the mornings at the weekends, and in the holidays (and sometimes play PS2 now instead). On Sunday mornings, they watch something Christian before church. So far, the viewing [...]

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Dangers of Enthusiasm for Overseas cds

As I mentioned earlier, we ordered the full set of Seeds Family Worship bible memory song cds. They cost a bargain $65 for 5 double sets. Or so we thought… We had a delivery slip – more to pay. So the Vicar went off to the sorting office, where we were charged an extra £14.70 [...]

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Bank Holiday Monday Monsters

We had a mellow Bank Holiday Monday. The Vicar mowed the lawn and papered a wall. I washed everything I could lay my hands on and mopped some floors. The big kids and the Vicar went to the park and fed the ducks. There was Lego play and art production inspired by the PS2 (you [...]

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Vicar’s wife job description – Part 8 – PS2 Games

Why does a Vicar’s wife need to be able to wield a Buzz Junior PS2 buzzer? Well, when the church magazine editor rings and the Vicar is in the middle of an important round of Monster Rumble with the Engineer and the Joker, who has to take his place in the game? I valiantly took [...]

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Vicar’s wife job description – Part 7 – Busy Evenings

One evening this week things got a bit crazier than usual in our house. All was calm at tea time and our next few hours ahead looked like being fairly gentle. I had to take the Queen to her swimming lesson, and the Vicar had offered to help a homeless youngster move into some new [...]

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Polly and the Baby

Polly and her baby are staying with us. They became homeless the weekend of the Visitors, and moved into council funded emergency accommodation for a week. It was clean but horrible – noisy, rather smelly and insecure (she could open her room by shoving on the door). I’d known Polly for a while and get [...]

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Mrs Beamish – Change in Church

My friend DoctorMum is a curate’s wife, shortly to be a Vicar’s wife. She posted this video clip on her Facebook profile. It illustrates perfectly how we all feel about change in church. This one’s expecially for my dad, who is at one with Mrs B on the peace.

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The Inner City Vicar’s Day Off

We’ve all heard the jokes about only working on Sundays, but in reality the Vicar works a 50-60 hour week (he knows that because he keeps a timesheet). So a good day off is essential if we want to keep going at this job in the long term. You need to clear your head and [...]

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The Vicar’s Wife’s Patent Toothbrushing Method for Children

I am a bad mother. It’s true. The Queen and the Joker both have fillings. Every parent knows that brushing the children’s teeth is an excruciating experience for everyone. I loathe it and confess to having been a slacker (hence the fillings). My inner city dentist, used to the bad diets of local children, told [...]

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