Posted in Church, Vicar's wife job description, tagged bereavement, Children, CRB forms, drug dealers, Express and Star, Harvest festival, Kids, parish, Vicar's wife, Vicar's wife job description on 20 October, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been another interesting day here in the parish, so I thought I’d share a few snippets of what I got up to:
School harvest festival service in church. I was down for refreshments for the parents afterwards (tea, coffee and some home baking). My duties expanded to child care (the Engineer’s been a bit poorly [...]
Posted in Church, tagged apprentice, Black Country, Church, CofE, Express and Star, Lichfield diocese, ministry trainee, vacancies, vicar on 5 October, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Our local paper has just published a piece about the arrival of Happy, our new ministry trainee. I love the line where the Vicar is described as ‘unlike anyone I’ve ever met’.
As the Express and Star have commented, the diocese is struggling to find clergy for vacant posts. We are praying that God would guide [...]
Posted in Lads mags, Sandwell, vicar, tagged Express and Star, Lads mags, Mayor of Sandwell, Sainsbury, Sainsburys, Sandwell Council, top shelf, vicar, West Bromwich on 18 March, 2009 | 2 Comments »
On the day of his induction service, when he was handed the keys to the church and officially started work, the Vicar received a telephone call from the Express and Star, our local daily newspaper.
The journalist was following the diary of the Mayor of Sandwell and wanted to know what he was doing coming to [...]
Posted in Lads mags, tagged Asda, Pornography, Lads mags, Express and Star, Vicar's wife, porn, Church Times, complaint, cartoon, campaign on 28 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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. I [...]
Posted in Family, Lads mags, tagged Children, Asda, Pornography, Over-sexualisation, Lads mags, Express and Star, top shelf, porn, Supermarkets, consumers, Church Times, Mothers on 17 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 my [...]
Posted in Family, Kids, Lads mags, Wolverhampton, tagged Asda, buck passing, Children, Complaining, Express and Star, Lads mags, Over-sexualisation, Pornography, top shelf, West Midlands, Wolverhampton on 13 February, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The success of my complaint to Asda about their lads’ mags display was written up in our local paper this week. The article was pretty fair, although I’d hardly call a five minute queue at customer services and a five line complaint a ‘battle’, as they headlined it.
As the Express and Star have an online [...]
Posted in Family, Lads mags, tagged Asda, Complaining, Express and Star, Lads mags, Pornography, Shops, Walmart on 9 February, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The other day I had a surprising comment on my blog. I’ve not approved it for reading because it was from a reporter!
She’d read my story about my success in complaining to a local Asda store and wanted to write it up for our local paper.
On Friday night I was out with friends for the [...]
