Scarlett

Congratulations and thank you to me from 2 months ago who put my DBS check(s) in a safe, sensible and logical place so that the very frazzled brain of me today could find the right one easily this morning!

On 12 December I'm going to be speaking at St John's Church in Bury St Edmunds about the ghost stories of M. R. James in theological perspective. You can book tickets here: wegottickets.com/event/677163

It’s a Chimere, you often see them wearing the red version of the same thing

If you pray, I’d really appreciate your prayers right now.

There’s a lot going on in life and things won’t settle down for some time

Feels like I’ve hit a turning point again with bell ringing, seem to be seeing big improvements each week and tonight rang independently in rounds!
Okay it was a bit of a mess but it feels like a really cool achievement

A woman dressed as St Catherine of Alexandria. She is wearing a gold crown and carrying a large wheel.

The final costume!

Was it impractical - yes
Did I have to explain St Catherine’s hagiography to people all night - yes
Was it worth it - absolutely

A woman stands holding a large makeshift wheel (made to look like an old wooden wagon wheel) while wearing a gold crown

Props are done - just hoping they manage the journey on Friday!

Also I realised I’m wearing a top with a Catherine Wheel on it in this photo which was unintentional

A selfie of a woman with a dog inside a church

Made a friend at Bellringing this evening!

And I am almost doing all the ringing on my own - not bad considering I spent earlier today having injections in my neck!

Off to the hospital today in the continued quest to find something to help my migraines. If you pray, please do so for me.

It is! And hopefully means I’ll still look like I’m in fancy dress after I’ve stopped holding on to the 4ft wheel!

A Papier-mache crown

Panic made a crown to wear to a fancy dress wedding (yes really) - quite pleased with myself given it’s made from things found lying around the house!

Just need to paint it tomorrow

Looking for book recommendations for things I can read over the long summer break. Theological or non-theological recommendations, but bonus points if I can get them easily from either the college library or a public library (or if you know me in person can lend them to me)
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H and I have been in IKEA for, I kid you not, 7 hours(!) today and somehow haven’t had an argument or bought too many unnecessary things!

If they manage to appoint...

Every time I think "hmm it's been a few days since I've had a migraine, maybe things are getting better" it is a sure fire sign I will get a migraine within the next 24 hours

A pinky/orange scallop shell made into a necklace with a hole in the top through which twine and two coloured beads have been threaded

My first time being the “guest” preacher at St Mary at the Elms today. Wonderful hospitality and the junior church made me this wonderful pilgrim necklace as they were thinking about St James today

And now I’m seeing how this explanation only gets stranger than my original post

Well technically this one gets its name from the same place - the wheel which St Catherine was set to be killed on. However, this one will be used for a fancy dress wedding (yes really) at which I’m informed there may also be the firework kind

On top of a large table lies a large pink and purple hulahoop, with sticks laid across it to make a spoke pattern. In the middle a cardboard circle covers the intersection

This evening’s task - working out how to construct a large Catharine wheel that is stable enough to make it through a car journey to Wales and light enough to be carried around for several hours when we get there

This way me yesterday, then I hurriedly wrote the whole thing at stumps when inspiration hit at just the right time!

We stayed in a really damp AirBnB while away this weekend and my lungs are doing their best to remind me that I did not outgrow my childhood asthma and they are angry at me

Wonderful! It’s in my diary now too!!
I remember putting it off too, and then begging someone at the cathedral to serve (I was the only person originally available) because I couldn’t face the thought of being there if it was a no

Congratulations Pip!
Is there a formal commissioning of ordinands this year? I’d love to come if there is

Rough journey to Sheffield with another migraine for graduation fun later this week, made better by H pointing out every church he sees to me

A large simple wooden cross with two wooden candle sticks either side

Bell ringing this evening!

Getting better (I think) and gradually putting it all together

Unfortunately another injury too, but have a week off for my hands to heal (again)

Here’s the cross that was made from the old bell frame as part of the restoration project

This morning inspiration hit me while I was suffering from a migraine, I voice noted a plan and I’m hoping it all makes sense when I go back to writing it later

Is there anything you don’t have a doctor who gif for?! I’m very impressed!
Or is there a whole host of opinions you would love to give but can’t quite find the gif for

Thanks Gina, hopefully it will start to ease soon. I’ve stopped worrying about being worried and now just anxious more generally which is a little easier

Watching a tv show set in Cambridge with H, and in a wide shot of central Cambridge he points to a building and asked me which college it was.
Friends not only was it our college, it was also the building he lived in….

H has been exceptionally good at making sure I block out time today to write my sermon today, unfortunately I’ve been very bad at using said time productively
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