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I had the kind of day when I went to church with 40-50 scotch pancakes and came home with a cabbage.

Do you think people are staring at me because of the dog collar or the space lunch box?

It has never been more important in most of our lifetimes than now to make art that deeply offends and concerns fascists.

The greatest peril in Spidey and His Amazing Friends this evening is that Hydroman is threatening to get some books wet outside a bookshop. Captain America has been deployed to help. Captain America, I think you may have bigger problems right now.

He has some flippers! This is perfect!

I see I have missed the letter 3 from the above list. In my defence, I am running a temperature. Maybe we need to do numbers week.

5) Fast fashion

6) Fibonacci

7) Fibre optic broadband advertisement

8) Fire. Small bin fire in one of those mini desk bins that looks like a wheelie bin.

I’ve become way too invested in letter of the week at preschool. This week is F week. Here are some ridiculous ideas I have for the preschooler to bring to show and tell. Please feel free to add your own:

1) Functioning fondue set spilling cheese everywhere.

2) Fungi.

4) Mini working farm.

“Wet rehearsal?!” Seriously, NASA, just call it a tech rehearsal and then every theatre kid will understand the vibe.

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Liam is home now and we are grateful to @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social for traveling to Minneapolis with him and his dad.

Welcome home Liam ❤️❤️

The priest at my church got beat up at an anti-ICE protest on the peninsula this week, and when he showed up for Mass today with a black eye all the church ladies swooned like they had seen a Backstreet Boy.

I read in the press that the Brooklyn Beckham debacle will be a test case for influencers’ children and how they will view their parents when they grow up. But what about Christopher Robin? We already know how that went.

A picture of Bob Dylan smoking with his guitar, overwritten with lyrics from “Blowing in the Wind”: How many ears must one man have/before he can hear people cry? And how many deaths will it take ‘til he knows too many people have died?

Number of US-style pickup trucks on UK roads up 92% in a decade, data shows Exclusive: Campaigners say ‘menacing vehicles’ are putting children at risk owing to their large front blind zones

A country of small roads, limited parking and congestion charges. This makes no sense.🤷‍♂️

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Kids these days don’t know they’re born. Watching the entirety of Mary Poppins on Disney with no adverts and no accidental rugby match taped over the top of it right before the finale. I’m weirdly unfamiliar with the end due to that aforementioned incident.

Macron: “this will turn NATO into an ash heap…”
BBC Radio 4 news: “all cows are individuals…”

My fascination with the Beckham story is just escapism and avoidance about the world basically falling apart, isn’t it? Also the cow that can scratch itself.

I think C of E comms should use this. Somehow.

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

Thank you, Stranger Things, for introducing me to this delightful, and deeply Christian novel. I can’t believe I‘ve never read it before!

I would just like one play date that trundles along without the preschooler at some point randomly retrieving and pretending to read the Bible.

There is a new autistic barbie out, but no one is talking about her mother, undiagnosed computer engineer barbie about to get the surprise of her life when she starts to argue with the evaluator that these are all normal childhood behaviours that she had when she was the same age.

babybel implies the existence of scarybel, sportybel, gingerbel and poshbel

If you’ve never been to an Episcopal Church service, I highly recommend it. I’m an avowed atheist, but my local Episcopal church is so amazing and the messages are always about building community and love. It can lift even the most skeptical soul in these dark times.

If you live or work in Oxford diocese (that means Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire) then please fill in this questionnaire about what you’d like to see in the next bishop: oxford.anglican.org/consultation

AI slop, which I didn’t even ask for. Of course the film’s release is in the future, not the past! Such a silly answer.

What if Episode 9 of Stranger Things drops on Jan 9

This is beginning to have the same vibe as preachers who keep predicting the End Times.

I would love to be Karen Wheeler in Strange Things, or of course Winona, but in reality I am Dustin’s mum.

Wait what this is basically the beginning of Cemetery Road, which was mostly filmed in Oxford. Are you sure it wasn’t all a front for a stealth assassination?

One of the Least This was my sermon at the University Church on 28th December 2025. I don’t preach as often in my new role, so I haven’t been updating this blog as regularly. This sermon was for Holy In…

My sermon from last week kind of feels more relevant this week, actually: likestarsintheworld.wordpress.com/2026/01/04/o...