Robb Sutherland

Three hours just disappeared in the blink of an eye!

Robert Jenrick is another person who has cooked his brain on Twitter (“Activist judges” is a very American-brained phrase, and I’m also sceptical that 30 judges and mags are really in favour of “open borders”, as opposed to a slightly more liberal regime, or just helping immigrants get their rights)

Developing a chest infection was not on my list of things to do on annual leave.

"I see gangs of masked thugs roaming the streets rounding up anyone the wrong colour, and I think: *this* is what Britain needs."

Short version: You AREN'T paying your state pension. You paid for your parents' pension.

The 'kids today' and 'those immigrants' are paying your pension.

I picked the first couple of things that came to mind when I think heretic. If you can make them work, make them work, all power to your elbow.

Tonight we talked about Victoria Wood and how clever her comedy was. She was four years younger than my mum. When she was using a hostess trolley so was my Granma. I am feeling a bit old. And eying up a woman’s weekly.

VNV Nation is on the telly box. Fr Eddie must be in charge of the YouTube playlist again.

I have read the “Little Book of Heresy” and I’ve never had cause to apply it to you.

Yet.

I am very orthodox (little o) so I will reserve the right to declare you a heretic in the future.

If the need should arise.

Well @thebassplayer.bsky.social says she won’t do an acoustic version of Right Said Fred’s I’m Too Sexy with @robbandruth.bsky.social. What a killjoy.

Putting it out there and hang the consequences. We need to neuter the use of the word “orthodox” (small o) as a dog whistle for not inclusive. We need to start using it again without the dog whistle. Credal. Not a Donatist. Opposed to Arianism for example. Orthodox. Like me. And my 🌈 friends.

We’ve been on a little trip out. It seems we’ve accidentally started booking gigs as an acoustic duo covering songs from the 50s to now - anything we love where we can sing excessive harmonies.

As is usually the case, we went shopping for Ruth and came back with something for Robb.

This is the kind of headline where I am glad to see our tower blocks in the background. @holynativity.bsky.social @leeds.anglican.org

If it is, I couldn’t be bothered having cassocks with liturgically coloured piping 🤣

Have just seen a guy in St Peter’s Square with Green piping on his cassock. What’s that mean?

The Rapture is not a bloody long held myth, it’s a fundamentally twentieth century one (granted, its roots are in the nineteenth century but it didn’t get big till the twentieth), and it’s got nothing to do with the Catholic Church.

Me and my mum at the Colosseum. Having a wonderful time talking about memories of my dad, my grandparents, when mum was growing up, life in the pit village when only one family had a TV and they all sat as kids cross legged watching it.

The “potato situation”.

Open top bus round Rome for three days. €40. Disabled free. Bargain.

Watched a deadpan 8 year old tell her dad he’d never be as good as Eddie [Van Halen].

Nothing can top this level of parenting.

Most clinical psychologists are at work on a Friday morning when someone on This Morning claims they can communicate with the dead and invokes their profession.

Mine is in the hospital waiting room saying “this poor woman needs to be allowed to grieve not put on national television”.

I had whooping cough as a child. It was horrible. Vaccinate your kids.

People who push Christian nationalism hate it when actual Christians speak up because of course “Christian” really means “white”

To: All Staff
Subject: IMPORTANT REMINDER!!!

NEVER lend animals your phone to order items online. Gavin just confiscated another anvil and six rockets from the coyote enclosure.

JEFF: I love Def Leppard.

GEOFF: It's Deof Leoppard.

A headline saying 'I found the sycamore gap tree under my patio slab'. And it's some dark spot that maybe looks like a tree?

New 'I saw Jesus' face in a slice of toast' just dropped.

A voice for the voiceless.

I managed to move an annual breakfast from cereal to bacon in my first year as vicar. And an oblique comment about black pudding means I’ve been furnished with a black pudding butty ever since. I have the best parish.

It was!

On a personal note, volunteers are ace.