Quick round up

Date: 08 March 2010 16:16:01

So, last time I blogged was the end of half term. A couple of busy weeks later and here we are. I've just got back from Mums and Tots (who knows where the apostrophes are meant to go in there?) group and have about half an hour before evening prayer. Rusk loves being around groups of other kids. Today there was only one big tumble, two sharing er incidents and one hand covered in orange ink from the rubber stamp set. Successful I think. There are a couple of new families there so a fairly full room. I do like that it counts as work for me. So many things I do for work I really enjoy.

I'm off on a training day on Wednesday - preparing for priesthood. Not quite sure what it is going to cover, but it should be interesting. It'll be nice to have a reunion with all the people I was deaconed with last year. Our diocese is quite large and we don't see each other very often. After that (and Lent group in the evening) on Thursday I'm going back to school for the day. I am doing a bit of work in school regularly with collective worship, but I wanted to get more of a feel for how the school day works, hence spending a day there.

Today the task is to get the bulk of the work for Sunday done. One sermon - to be used twice - and one all age talk. Mothering Sunday - should be able to find something to say for that. Tricky to know how to strike a balance between Mothering Sunday being a celebration and yet being a very painful experience for the bereaved or those who had bad experiences of mothers.

In other news, here is what I did for the Ravelympics, the knitters' attempt to justify lots of sitting in front of winter sports:

They were completed by the end of the olympics and so I qualify for medals:

The first one is the team medal for completing a project.

The second one is the event medal. I competed in Sock Hockey with some crochet socks. I also attempted the Lace Luge with a lace stole, but this will be a longer term project due to the faffiness of lace!

In case anyone was wondering, they aren't meant to be a matching pair as far as colours go. Who said socks have to match anyway?

I've now moved on to making a scarf and am currently at the black hole stage of knitting, where you knit and knit and knit for an hour, yet the piece seems no longer. Ah well, it will pass eventually.

Back to the sermons I think.