It's been a long time silent on this blog. Excuses: lots of reports to write at work, son's wedding, time spent recruiting new wardens. But now the reports are (largely) written, the son is well-married, and we have two new excellent wardens to replace the two super-experienced (and super) retiring wardens. So I now have some time to return to the practice of making occasional updates.
We had a civic service today at the 1100. That was ... interesting . .. We expected 20 or 30 in the civic party and reserved pews accordingly, but it turned out to be 110 complete with sword and mace. Fortunately we discovered that 10 minutes before, just enough time to persuade a couple of the congregation kindly to move to clear a larger space for the civic party. Equally fortunately, the party were kindly tolerant of our rushing around to make sure all happened decently and in order. Alison, one of the two new wardens, was shadowing me in all this, so has now seen the business of wardening the 1100 at a very elevated rate of busy-ness and tempo.
The other new warden, Pete, has just started his own warden's blog at http://newkindofxian.tumblr.com/ so do take a look ...
We had a civic service today at the 1100. That was ... interesting . .. We expected 20 or 30 in the civic party and reserved pews accordingly, but it turned out to be 110 complete with sword and mace. Fortunately we discovered that 10 minutes before, just enough time to persuade a couple of the congregation kindly to move to clear a larger space for the civic party. Equally fortunately, the party were kindly tolerant of our rushing around to make sure all happened decently and in order. Alison, one of the two new wardens, was shadowing me in all this, so has now seen the business of wardening the 1100 at a very elevated rate of busy-ness and tempo.
The other new warden, Pete, has just started his own warden's blog at http://newkindofxian.tumblr.com/ so do take a look ...
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