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surprising things

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So, do you suppose the white haired man stumbling around the farm shop in confusion was most perplexed by the fact that:

  1. there were two people in dog collars blocking the door?
  2. one of the two was a woman?
  3. the other was wearing a purple shirt?

In other surprising news, I was called Tiggerish today.

Yes, that’s right…

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get it all out of your system…

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have you stopped laughing now?

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Good.  Then I can go on to say:  before you get carried away with the Piglet jokes and make me feel very Eyoreish, the photo above is illustrative of context and not character in today’s story.

mystified

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Today has been the day of un-writable blog posts.

I wanted to write about the various links on Thinking Anglicans (here and here) about the escalation of the rhetoric of abuse against gay people in Nigeria, but I find I am lost for words at the inhumanity of what is being done in Christ’s name.  (Notice the suggestion that we should indoctrinate fear and hatred, and take action to rid the world of (and I quote)  ‘homos’.)

So, I went browsing to distract myself, and followed a link from a blog I know to a blog I don’t know, to a blog that person recommended, where I found this post arguing that a male pastor should never speak in private to a woman.  You will need to read the first half of the comments too.   The paranoia, the objectifying of women, and the  easy assumption that we cannot control our actions (except by excluding the one we’re afraid of) again leaves me speechless.

So there you have it.   You can go read about the things that make me too angry to speak, and perhaps find words where I have failed.

spared

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I’m afraid I’ve spent the past hour plotting the decoration of the new rectory again.  (consider it my version of virtual cycling).

When I first walked away from the house in Dunblane, I thought that irony might be the only way to approach the strong 1960s features (walnut pelmets, bedroom sinks, a vintage kitchen…)  But, the kindness of the vestry means that things will be much improved.

I am glad.

But there’s one thing I have that was just perfect for the old kitchen that won’t do at all in the new…

So I share it here instead.

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