Good Friday & Easter!

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Friday, 29th March 2024

Today, we in the Christian world mark Good Friday and so I will soon be off to church for our Good Friday service.

On Sunday, we will celebrate Easter, the day Christ was resurrected from the dead. Here in the UK, Easter gets all the attention especially since the secular world has made it all about chocolate eggs!!! There was even a recent article in the newspaper about a supermarket chain that has created Hot Cross Buns without the cross. Instead they have a tick. I’m not kidding!!!!

However, for us Christians, there is no Easter without Good Friday because Christ had to die on the cruel cross.

Great is the mystery of faith

Christ Has Died

Christ Has Risen

Christ Will Come Again

Burnt To A Crisp!

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Thursday, 28th March 2024

The vicar sometimes has croissants for breakfast and one day last week was one such morning. I like to be in charge of all things domestic and so I was in charge of the croissants. He likes Picards Croissants with Charentes butter from Ocado which comes frozen. It is very easy to prepare. All I have to do is cook them in the oven for 18 minutes.

I did exactly that but on that fateful day the croissants came out burnt! I honestly don’t know what went wrong but I couldn’t possibly let the vicar eat those burnt croissants.

Regular readers will by now know that I operate on a need to know basis and so I didn’t tell him about the burnt croissant! Instead, I just put a couple more in the oven and served breakfast as usual!

A Problem Shared Is a Problem Halved

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Wednesday, 27th March 2024

Recently, I have been concerned about a certain health issue and have been keeping it all to myself. Normally, I would share it with the vicar but given the time that he has had since the new year I had been very reluctant. Unfortunately, I was only gettting more and more stressed about what was bothering me until I decided to come clean! I felt so much better after I had shared my concerns and the niggling problem too has since disappeared! Praise be!

Why Is It So Wee?

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Tuesday, 26th March 2024

Last week, I added a bottle of Johnsons Baby Powder to my online shopping basket as I was running out of it. A few days later, It duly arrived with the rest of my shopping. When I took it out of the bag, I was so shocked by the size of the bottle. It was so wee! I had never seen one like that before!!!! Upon checking, I realised that I had accidentally ordered a 100g bottle instead of the usual 500g. I’m afraid it has now been relegated to the travel toiletry bag!!!!

The Mystery Of The Potato

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Monday, 25th March 2024

About a week ago, I was peeling potatoes to go with our evening meal. The aim was to make a creamy mash to go with the steak pie that was nicely cooking away in the oven. As I was cutting the potatoes into smaller pieces in order to aid the cooking process, one piece bounced off the chopping board and landed behind the fridge or so I thought. In case you are wondering how on earth the potato bounced off the chopping board?! The answer is very simple. I am left handed and so strange things happen especially when I am cooking!!!!

I was convinced that the potato had landed behind the fridge and so just before dinner, I asked the vicar if he could help. With the help of a torch, he started looking for the offending item behind the fridge and under the fridge but after looking for it, he was quite sure that it wasn’t there.

Since we have no where else to look, the potato remains undiscovered!

A Bit Of A Pong!

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Friday, 22nd March 2024

This week, a female columnist wrote in the Times of London that she has stopped using deodorant! Her reason for doing so was very simple. She said that once when she was on holiday, she had forgotten to pack her deodorant and according to her she smelt fine for the duration of her holiday and so since that day she just stopped using deodorant altogether!

I will be doing NO such thing!

Vanish!

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Thursday, 21st March 2024

I have just discovered the Vanish bar! Actually someone introduced it to me. I knew Vanish the spray existed but not the bar.

The vicar’s white robes always get very dirty. I don’t really know how he manages that! I often wonder if he rolls around the church yard after every service!!!!!

Anyway, I decided to try the Vanish bar on his cassock alp. It does seem to have done the job but will it be able to cope with communion wine stains? Watch the space!

Do Not Mollycoddle!

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Wednesday, 20th March 2024

Recently, I was in conversation with someone when she told me that these days teachers in her area no longer use red pens to mark/correct pupils work instead they use green pens!!!!!

I will stop here in case I get harangued by the mollycoddle brigade!!!

What Was That All About?

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Tuesday, 19th March 2024

I tend to help with the vicar’s personal admin in order to free up his time so that he can focus on his work. At the weekend, he asked me to buy asome gift vouchers from Marks and Spencer to give to his clergy colleagues who are either retiring or moving away from the area. As a super organised individual, I relish these tasks.

I decided to purchase these gift vouchers online first thing on Monday morning. I don’t know what on earth possessed me but I was super nervous as I was doing the ordering!!! I checked my order a million times but I still was nervous. I am not like that at all but I don’t know where this feeling of anxiety came from!!!!

Anyway, I am pleased to say that I managed to complete the order without a hitch! Praise be!

It Is All Her Fault!

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Monday, 18th March 2024

On her recent visit to the vicarage, the hairdresser and I were talking about air travel. We were bemoaning the fact that airports have become very stressful places. I was telling her how they used to ask at the check in desk if we had packed the bags ourselves and if anyone asked us to carry anything for them.

I went on to tell her about this particular scene in one of the Bridget Jones movies where the main character Bridget, while at the airport in Thailand agrees to carry something for someone else and gets arrested and detained in jail.

As we were giggling over that scene, I let out a gentle yelp. By then we had both stopped giggling. Instead the poor hairdresser started apologising as her scissors had caught my ear!!!! Thankfully, there was no blood. Just some redness over the area.

We both agreed never ever to bring up Bridget Jones again!!!!!