On return from holiday I had lots to deal with, a pile of mail that was nearly as tall as me, various calls to respond to, and an update on all that had been going on in my absence. All good, or rather everything went well, though it had been extremely busy and very well covered by my colleagues. In the week since I've got back though I have had a number of conversations where people have expressed disappointment that 'The Vicar' didn't do X or Y, or that Clergy haven't visited certain folk - despite the fact that I know I have extremely competent colleagues and very good lay pastoral visitors from all of the Churches who have handled things as well, if not better, than I ever could. It boils down to the erroneous belief that things are somehow more 'kosher' if a man (preferably a man in many cases, but that's another issue which I am not going to rant about today) with a 'dog collar' does it, be it opening fetes, visiting people or services in...
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Mind you I'm a coffe man myself
Tea never really did it for me ...
but then again I hear only those who drink tea can enter tea heaven
and only those who drink guinness can now guinness bliss - lol!
I heard it somewhere said maybe in "Snowhite & the seven dwarfs" - if all seven dwarfs were the same, how would she know ever who was who in snowhite heaven