A Couple of Campaigns to Watch and Join

If one of your New Year’s Resolutions is to be a bit more socially active, I’d like to suggest a couple of campaigns that I’ve recently started following and have signed up for: Apparently January is sadly the most popular month for people to file for divorce. Faithfulness Matters are campaigning against companies who seek [...]

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Clergy Wives’ Conference, HMV and Lads’ Mags again

What with my first school volunteering sessions and tummy bugs (the Joker had it and then gave it to me – yuck) last week, posting has been a bit slack and now I’m off on a minister’s wives’ conference for most of this week. I’m looking forward to spending the next few days thinking about [...]

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Lads Mags, Porn and WHSmith

I’m wondering whether I should stop shopping at WHSmith. I’ve recently discovered that what I thought was a respectable family store is actually a peddler of porn. On one of my first visits to my local Sainsburys, I had a discussion with a chap stacking the magazine racks. The lads mags were being placed at [...]

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The Vicar in the news

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 [...]

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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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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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Complaining – in the paper!

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 [...]

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Complaining – an update

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 [...]

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Complaining Works!

I had a letter in the post today which cheered me a little. It was an apology from the manager of the Asda store which I’d shopped in for the first time on New Year’s Eve. He wasn’t apologising about the shocking queues in there, but then I’d not actually complained about that. I had [...]

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