Weekend Adventures at the Vicarage

My head is still spinning a bit after this weekend. On Friday an old pal from our Cambridge church turned up on our doorstep wanting a bed for a few nights – he’s on a walking tour of the country. My parents also came to stay and Rocky’s fiancee stopped over Saturday and Sunday nights. [...]

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Vicarage Taxi?

A short tale from a recent Sunday at the Vicarage: The Vicar was in the kitchen, talking to a weeping parishioner who was in some emotional turmoil. We were waiting for our pal Nerd to come and join us for lunch. I guess it was about 1.30pm. I had a text from my local friend [...]

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How to Cope as a Vicar’s Wife – the Top Ten Tips

Earlier this week Fiona left a comment on my post about Ten Great Things About Being a Vicar’s Wife. She is looking for advice as her husband begins ministry later this year. Here’s what she asked: It quite hard as I just would like to to my very best. I have two children and its [...]

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Ten Great Things About Being a Vicar’s Wife

Inspired by Steve Tilley’s list of reasons to be married to a priest I thought I’d add a Vicar’s wife’s perspective. We’ve not watched the offending episode of Rev yet – we were interrupted before viewing on iPlayer by the Vicar’s diocesan golf team partner arriving to stay over so that he and the Vicar [...]

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Vicar’s wife job description: Part 15 – Printer paper & BAP forms

One day earlier this week saw me strolling up to tow-un (you have to use the Black Country pronounciation, or it’s just not right) just before lunch. The Vicar had run out of printer paper. Both he & Happy needed some and they had others coming over for a meeting an hour later. So, seeing [...]

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A Rector’s Wife’s Tale: Hazards of Charity Envelopes

The Rector’s Wife is a regular commentator on this blog, and recently she made an aside remark about her experiences collecting charity envelopes which made me want to find out more! I asked her to send me the whole story so I could share it with you… You know how when you knock on someone’s [...]

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The Vicar’s wife’s dilemma: What to do?

Not a question about whether to watch the election coverage on Twitter or listen on the radio, nor about where to start with the housework (the answer to that, of course, is ‘ANYWHERE. NOW.’), but a question about church.  This Sunday I played the keyboard for 3 of the 4 songs in our morning service. [...]

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The Doorbell Goes Again

It’s been a bit of a doorbell day here at the Vicarage. They are always brought on by sunshine. Kids calling for our kids, and neighbours calling with news. I was asked to call the out-of-hours doctor for Glamourpuss, who was laid up in severe pain and without any credit on her phone. Later, other [...]

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Vicar’s wife job description: Part 14: Food and other stuff

It’s been a while since I posted a Vicar’s wife job description and yesterday was particularly manic, so I thought I’d give you yet another glimpse of life in our Vicarage from my perspective. Yesterday I cooked: Meringues (using up leftovers) for Thursday’s coffee morning. Bread for lunch for mini mission team (7 adults expected, [...]

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Vicar’s wife job description – Part 13 – A mixed bag

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 [...]

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