A pride flag lightly waving against a clear blue sky.
Hell, yeah, Church in Wales! 🏳️🌈🏴 Love wins! ❤️ By a handy margin! 👋
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#ChurchinWales
#YrEglwysYngNghymru
#Pride
PS. Love you, Sarah! ❤️
In fairness, I actually recognise that there are other, more vulnerable people than myself who are therefore far more deeply threatened than I am. And, for that very reason, it’s important to stand up and be counted.
What’s interesting is that I have to force eye-contact every time.
Once every quarter, I play host at an open community church event to which our local high-profile Reform UK candidate invariably turns up. I’m trying to think of something clever to say here, but honestly what do you do with someone whose campaign takes issue with the simple fact that you exist?
Well. I must say, the breakfast room at the Holiday Inn Express is particularly feral this morning.
A shop display with a four foot long glow in the dark rosary.
Wait. Spoke too soon!
The inside of a small book shop.
I’m in the little book shop of the Catholic cathedral in Birmingham. Lovely little shop. Packs a good punch with its book selection. But there is not a single glow-in-the-dark item to be found anywhere. There should be glow-in-the-dark stuff. ⚓️
I’ve been dealing with grief since I was a toddler. I literally can’t remember a time when I didn’t know what death was and how rubbish and awful it can be. I really do know the drill.
But, no. It totally wasn’t what I wanted to find in my mail this morning. So, y’know … thanks, Nige.
A campaign leaflet for Reform UK in advance of the Welsh Senedd elections. It is addressed to my son, who is dead.
I wonder what Reform UK think they have to gain by sending one of their vile, fascist campaign leaflets to my dead son?
Thank god I’m battle-hardened. I’ve had parishioners whom this would simply break.
No other party has made this mistake.
#senedd2026
#seneddelections
#ReformUK
#ReformWales
The stage at the end of the performance. Lighting shows the word “Pride”.
And, yes, I cried at the end of this, too.
Poster for the theatrical musical version of “Pride”.
Currently at this in Cardiff. Intermission. It’s good. Fans of the film, come see it. Haven’t seen the film? See it. Every time I do, I think, “This is the one where I don’t cry at the end.” And I do every time. There is power in a union.
20 easter lights, a large paschal candle on a stand, and a jug of holy water and a bowl, all lining a stone church porch.
I’ve had the best Holy Week that I’ve had in years. Engaged congregations. I used southern country gospel music all the way through (and they really got it). Joyful sunrise vigil with the whole clergy team.
… and now it’s Easter Boxing Day, and I am doing not one dang thing.
Perfect.
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i have no idea. honestly, we only noticed it tonight and we were definitely flummoxed.
A paschal candle. Sticker on it says 1988.
So. This is an actual in-use, going-concern paschal candle in one of our churches in the ministry area. They’re getting a new one this year, by God, whether they like it or not. ⚓️
I do believe this is a real attempt to crack down on corruption.
The move to out-flank Reform is the cruelty-for-its-own-sake brutality they’re proposing to inflict upon immigrants.
BRIAN GRIFFIN SMASH PATTY | AMERICAN CHEESE CRISPY BACON | PEANUT BUTTER | CHILLI JAM £11.00
Newport Market to celebrate the younger daughter’s acquisition of a job. Never thought of putting peanut butter on a smash burger.
And, friends? It does not suck.
pen and ink drawing of a tiger. caption: i eat people. i like doing it.
I think I have a new rule of life here.
well, their rhetoric on immigration was the final straw for me … precisely on the basis of the cruelty being the point.
having joined Labour in 1997, I am now a card-carrying Green.
and eggs? how much are they?
Yeah, I’ve gone straight to the circus seal line from “Clerks”.
Don’t know it? Google it.
Credit Karma: “Congratulations! You’ve hit a milestone on your credit card!!”
Me: “o yeah?”
Credit Karma: “you’ve paid it off!!”
Me: “erm. I do that every month.”
:: sigh ::
Honestly, I’ve got a few colleagues I’d be happy to recommend …
Screenshot of an email that must be about 50-75 pages if it were printed that starts out with (in all caps): “ATTENTION ALL TRUE CHRISTIANS: THE JUDEO-SATANIC-ZIONIST-TRUMP-MILEKOVSKI-ZYLENSKI-SATANYAHU'S ANTICHRIST WARS OF BOLSHEVIK HOLODOMOR MASSACRES AGAINST INNOCENT CIVILIANS IS NOW”.
Sometimes the mere fact of being a clergy person means you attract people with … errm … interesting worldviews. This email, which would probably take up 50 to 75 pages, if printed on paper, was cheerfully awaiting me when I awoke this morning. ⚓️
I wonder what this means for his Nobel Peace Prize.
CBS is now bought and paid for, sadly. I can only be glad that Cronkite didn’t live to see the day.
“Curling!”, spits my belovéd. “Yipe-yipe-yipe-yipe-yipe-yipe-yipe!! It’s just shouting at rocks!” #milancortina2026 #winterolympics
Jar of Original Blue-Emu Super Strength joint and muscle gel. (At least that what they say it’s for.) Contains emu oil. That would appear to be the selling point. I have questions.
Charleston, South Carolina, Publix supermarket. 14th Feb. 2026.
And who knew that emu oil would be a viable commercial product?
honestly, it beggars belief that Epstein is about to bring down the british prime minister, but not the US president.
Tailgated by a Fiat 500 this morning. Now *that* was an experience I wasn’t expecting.
Hell, I didn’t know they could even do 90.
