The Vicar’s day off is looking a bit alternative today. We have a friend coming over to help us with the church website. Which is sort of work, but not really cos the friend is lovely so it’ll be a treat. And another friend is coming for lunch. But we’re not getting a trip out. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Fun’
A Different Day Off
Posted in Fun, tagged alan becker, animation, Animator vs Animation, day off, film, Fun, short, vicar, Vicar's day off, victim on 16 October, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Subduing the earth
Posted in Fun, tagged creation mandate, decluttering, domestic chaos, Fun, Genesis 1v28, humour, mess, Noel Piper, subduing the earth, The Pioneer Woman, utility room on 8 October, 2009 | 2 Comments »
What with Pioneer Woman clearing out her pantry, Noel Piper twittering her way through the excuses we make not to declutter and my (lovely and kind but also tidy) mother-in-law coming to visit tomorrow, I wonder if God has been trying to get through to me about the state of my utility room.
I should stop [...]
Jeremy Hardy on the CofE
Posted in Church, Fun, tagged Aldi, Anglican, Asda, Bishop of Reading, CofE, Fun, humour, Jeremy Hardy, M&S, Marks and Spencer, Radio4, the News Quiz on 26 September, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I was listening to Radio 4’s ‘The News Quiz’ on BBC iPlayer earlier this evening. As usual, it was laugh-out-loud funny, but I especially enjoyed a section about 12 minutes in. It was about the dear old Church of England and some of the activities of bishops in the run-up to Back to Church Sunday, [...]
Grammar pedants unite
Posted in Fun, tagged Fun, Grammar, pedant, quotation marks, Spelling on 24 August, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I am a grammar pedant. Spelling mistakes and misused punctuation shouts at me from miles away. That is why God gave me a dyslexic husband – he knew that I needed to increase in grace. But also that someone needed to correct the Vicar’s spelling before his communications are let loose on the world.
I came [...]
Can Christians be funny?
Posted in Faith, Fun, tagged Christian comedy, comedy, Fun, funny, humour, Michael Jr on 10 August, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A friend of ours had a debate with the Vicar recently. Our friend was not convinced that Christians could be funny. So the Vicar went surfing to find some Christian comedians.
Here’s one of the results which we enjoyed – it’s Michael Jr (who I’ve discovered has a blog himself):
We’re looking forward [...]
The Talking Papaya
Posted in Fun, Kids, tagged Children, Fun, Kids, story, story telling, tale, talking papaya on 3 August, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Queen has learnt a story off by heart at school this term (just like her brother). Her Year 3 class had been studying Australia and the oral story-telling tradition of the Aborigine people. And so they learnt to tell a story, with actions. I’m not sure this story is Australian, though.
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Books of the Bible Song
Posted in Fun, Kids, tagged Bible, bible memory, Bigsby Show, Books of the Bible, Fun, Kids, New Testament, Old Testament, song, YouTube on 27 July, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Since it’s the summer hols, posting is going to be a bit light. My brain is fried after nearly five months of Vicar’s Wifeing, but I’ll put up a few fun things over the coming weeks to cheer us all up as the rain reminds us we live in the Wet Midlands.
When I was posting [...]
Where the Wild Things Are – Black Country Version
Posted in Fun, Kids, tagged Black Country, Children, Fun, Kids, Maurice Sendak, Vicarage, Where the Wild Things Are on 1 July, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak is one of our favourite books to read at bedtime in the Vicarage. My mum read it to me when I was young and our children enjoy it just as much as I did. Recently the Joker came home from school and recited the whole story off [...]
Uses of Mobile Phones: Vicarage access
Posted in Fun, Vicarage, tagged cellphone, Fun, mobile phone, Vicarage on 24 June, 2009 | 2 Comments »
You need to have a mobile phone if you live in the Vicarage. Polly has used it three times recently to call the house:
When our doorbell was broken and she was outside the front door without a key and I was in the kitchen listening to music with the dishwasher and microwave going.
Yesterday evening when [...]
crazy dodey frog – a poem
Posted in Family, Fun, Kids, tagged Children, frog, Fun, Kids, poem, poetry, Vicarage on 22 June, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Joker wrote a poem on Saturday. After a busy morning at the Church Working party, polishing pillars and clearing tree trimmings, we’d returned to the Vicarage. The Engineer and the Joker were showing an inclination to spend the entire afternoon slouched in front of the box. I declared the next few hours to be [...]

