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[TANGODANCER]

All up and running Keveh. Thanks.

[finlayson]

It's still not working for me.....

[TANGODANCER]

It's still not working for me.....

Oh, well you wn't be reading this then.

[thebish]

thanks for fixing it keveh..

a whole day off - I ended up having to do some work!

[finlayson]

It's still not working for me.....

Oh, well you wn't be reading this then.

Still broken.

[Bruce Rioja]

thanks for fixing it keveh..

a whole day off - I ended up having to do some work!

Comprising what exactly?

[William the White]

thanks for fixing it keveh..

a whole day off - I ended up having to do some work!

Comprising what exactly?

Explaining why god isn't an essential concept in modern christianity, I hope...

[thebish]

thanks for fixing it keveh..

a whole day off - I ended up having to do some work!

Comprising what exactly?

have you never watched the telly?

a vicar's "work" (on a weekday) is to wait about in a church somewhere moving hymnbooks about and dusting pews waiting for a murder to happen or a murderer to come in and confess something disturbing in a confessional...

but I'd had enough of that today...

if you really want to know - the bulk of the afternoon I spent with a woman who in the last 2 years has had 3 pregnancies end with stillbirths. I have been with her and her husband, at their request, each time it happened through the whole experience in the hospital. today she got some really bad news about IVF not working and simply wanted someone non-medical who had the time and the space to listen. (she is not part of the church at all)

apart from 1001 yawny committees and trustee meetings and governers meetings (etc) that vicars get dragged into - simply being available to people when nobody else has the time is quite a large part of my job. the local church pays me so that I can be available to all kinds of people who need it.

a huge privilege - and not summat I'd swap for much else. certainly a better job than when I was a pressure diecaster in the Burnley aluminium foundry (Ashworths) or when I worked in the rates office - or in the benefit office - or a as a care assistant in Wandsworth - or when I worked in the night shelter in Vauxhall

what did your work entail today Bruce?

[TANGODANCER]

thanks for fixing it keveh..

a whole day off - I ended up having to do some work!

Comprising what exactly?

Explaining why god isn't an essential concept in modern christianity, I hope...

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[Gary the Enfield]

thanks for fixing it keveh..

a whole day off - I ended up having to do some work!

Comprising what exactly?

have you never watched the telly?

a vicar's "work" (on a weekday) is to wait about in a church somewhere moving hymnbooks about and dusting pews waiting for a murder to happen or a murderer to come in and confess something disturbing in a confessional...

but I'd had enough of that today...

if you really want to know - the bulk of the afternoon I spent with a woman who in the last 2 years has had 3 pregnancies end with stillbirths. I have been with her and her husband, at their request, each time it happened through the whole experience in the hospital. today she got some really bad news about IVF not working and simply wanted someone non-medical who had the time and the space to listen. (she is not part of the church at all)

apart from 1001 yawny committees and trustee meetings and governers meetings (etc) that vicars get dragged into - simply being available to people when nobody else has the time is quite a large part of my job. the local church pays me so that I can be available to all kinds of people who need it.

a huge privilege - and not summat I'd swap for much else. certainly a better job than when I was a pressure diecaster in the Burnley aluminium foundry (Ashworths) or when I worked in the rates office - or in the benefit office - or a as a care assistant in Wandsworth - or when I worked in the night shelter in Vauxhall

what did your work entail today Bruce?

Without wishing to sound too sycophantic, I'm glad you were there for that woman too, Bish. I've been somewhere near what those people have been through and know how helpful it is to have someone to talk to who isn't a Doctor, nurse, liaison officer or even a partner. Just someone who lets you talk. So on their behalf, and because I'm still grateful to the vicar who helped me through my grief. Cheers.

[TANGODANCER]

thanks for fixing it keveh..

a whole day off - I ended up having to do some work!

Comprising what exactly?

have you never watched the telly?

a vicar's "work" (on a weekday) is to wait about in a church somewhere moving hymnbooks about and dusting pews waiting for a murder to happen or a murderer to come in and confess something disturbing in a confessional...

but I'd had enough of that today...

if you really want to know - the bulk of the afternoon I spent with a woman who in the last 2 years has had 3 pregnancies end with stillbirths. I have been with her and her husband, at their request, each time it happened through the whole experience in the hospital. today she got some really bad news about IVF not working and simply wanted someone non-medical who had the time and the space to listen. (she is not part of the church at all)

apart from 1001 yawny committees and trustee meetings and governers meetings (etc) that vicars get dragged into - simply being available to people when nobody else has the time is quite a large part of my job. the local church pays me so that I can be available to all kinds of people who need it.

a huge privilege - and not summat I'd swap for much else. certainly a better job than when I was a pressure diecaster in the Burnley aluminium foundry (Ashworths) or when I worked in the rates office - or in the benefit office - or a as a care assistant in Wandsworth - or when I worked in the night shelter in Vauxhall

what did your work entail today Bruce?

You're not actually a bad chap at all Bish. Then again, I watch Midsomer murders and know that it's sometimes the clergy who do the murders.

[Dujon]

Thanks, keveh, it's nice to see the site back up and working. Cheers.

[Bruce Rioja]

what did your work entail today Bruce?

Err, in short? Flogging stuff to Johnny Foreigner.