Okay, we're almost getting caught up now, and it helps that the following week was fairly quiet. There was another Lent Evening at Mirfield, this one about Discernment, which had a bit more discussion, and also clips from Harry Potter, which was rather sweet, but again, the real highlight of the evening was Compline. Then on the Thursday I headed over to Sheffield to catch up with ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sfred which was fantastic. For the last couple of months we've both been doing the weekend commute thing in the opposite direction, so I was in Yorkshire when they were in London and vice versa, which felt a bit silly. It was a splendid evening, particularly seeing how well life is treating them at the moment.
Back to London for the weekend, and spending as much time as I could withobandsoller whenever he managed to climb out from under the giant pile of marking. We spent some time on wedding planning (squeeeee!), and then went out to the cinema to see Us, the new Jordan Peele film. I thought it was pretty good, but it did come up against the fundamental issue that I don't like horror films very much. I didn't find it quite as powerful as Get Out, but it still had some interesting things to say, and did a good job of finding light-hearted moments, whilst still being very firmly horror, not horror-comedy.
Sunday was a very full day of church. I started with a training session for our new adult servers, then Mass itself, then our Lent discussion group, a quick soup & bread lunch, and then a rehearsal for St John's Singers. Phew! All of these things were rewarding and enjoyable and interesting, but I was pretty knackered by the end of it. So obviously then instead of going home to rest I went over tothemidnightgirl and cm's place to help with printing and binding Thronescamp scripts. Fortunately that was a fairly relaxing evening, despite Prospero's* determined attempts to "help" with the binding, and it was good to catch up with them.
Another Oh God o'clock start on Monday was followed by another trip to Sheffield in the evening, this time to have dinner withfeanelwa, whom I hadn't seen for nigh on a decade - where does the time go? It was great to catch up - it's always interesting seeing how people have changed, and how they've stayed the same. Tuesday was a third installment of the Mirfield course, this time about Mission. This was the most challenging one so far - probably the best speaker, but also the only one to say things I flat out disagreed with. And then on Wednesday I finished my working week, and headed over to York for an evening with leonato, and thence to Derbyshire and Thronescamp...
*their cat
sfred which was fantastic. For the last couple of months we've both been doing the weekend commute thing in the opposite direction, so I was in Yorkshire when they were in London and vice versa, which felt a bit silly. It was a splendid evening, particularly seeing how well life is treating them at the moment.Back to London for the weekend, and spending as much time as I could with
obandsoller whenever he managed to climb out from under the giant pile of marking. We spent some time on wedding planning (squeeeee!), and then went out to the cinema to see Us, the new Jordan Peele film. I thought it was pretty good, but it did come up against the fundamental issue that I don't like horror films very much. I didn't find it quite as powerful as Get Out, but it still had some interesting things to say, and did a good job of finding light-hearted moments, whilst still being very firmly horror, not horror-comedy.Sunday was a very full day of church. I started with a training session for our new adult servers, then Mass itself, then our Lent discussion group, a quick soup & bread lunch, and then a rehearsal for St John's Singers. Phew! All of these things were rewarding and enjoyable and interesting, but I was pretty knackered by the end of it. So obviously then instead of going home to rest I went over to
themidnightgirl and cm's place to help with printing and binding Thronescamp scripts. Fortunately that was a fairly relaxing evening, despite Prospero's* determined attempts to "help" with the binding, and it was good to catch up with them.Another Oh God o'clock start on Monday was followed by another trip to Sheffield in the evening, this time to have dinner with
feanelwa, whom I hadn't seen for nigh on a decade - where does the time go? It was great to catch up - it's always interesting seeing how people have changed, and how they've stayed the same. Tuesday was a third installment of the Mirfield course, this time about Mission. This was the most challenging one so far - probably the best speaker, but also the only one to say things I flat out disagreed with. And then on Wednesday I finished my working week, and headed over to York for an evening with leonato, and thence to Derbyshire and Thronescamp...*their cat
