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The Rev's Family: After school chat
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Friday, 30 September 2016. Me: Oh, this is good. You've done some writing today? Jem: I maked a list. A list of what? Jem: It's a list like Father Christmas. I putted Christine on the naughty list. Me: Oh.kaaaay.Who is on the good list? Jem: Everyone in the class except Christine. Me: Oh dear. What did Christine do to be put on the naughty list? Jem: She stole mine and Davy's chicks. Me: I see you've put yourself on this list, too. Jem: No. That's just so people know it's MY list. Me: Ah. Right. I am the...
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The Rev's Family: Books I read in 2015
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Tuesday, 12 January 2016. Books I read in 2015. At least there are no blank months; and I seem to have mostly got over my bleary-eyed, sleep-deprived days of reading nothing but Asterix comics and Christian chick-lit intended for teenagers. Anyway, for anyone interested, here’s what I thought of what I read in 2015. The Labyrinth Year,. I really enjoyed this scenic novel about a pastor encountering the life of St Francis. Both gripping and fascinating. It’s on my re-read list. Written by a fellow member ...
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The Rev's Family: September 2016
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Friday, 30 September 2016. Me: Oh, this is good. You've done some writing today? Jem: I maked a list. A list of what? Jem: It's a list like Father Christmas. I putted Christine on the naughty list. Me: Oh.kaaaay.Who is on the good list? Jem: Everyone in the class except Christine. Me: Oh dear. What did Christine do to be put on the naughty list? Jem: She stole mine and Davy's chicks. Me: I see you've put yourself on this list, too. Jem: No. That's just so people know it's MY list. Me: Ah. Right. I am the...
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The Rev's Family: The Duplo Train
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Friday, 16 October 2015. Listening to five minutes of Jeremy's playing with his Duplo train set is like entering a surreal universe. A train gets stuck on a country track. It has broken down. Oh no! What will the passengers do? They'll never get to the station! They must find a train driver, because drivers are good at fixing trains. He's a clever train driver, though, and he thinks outside the box and walks to a nearby farm, where he asks the farmer: "Please can I borrow one of your animals? Zoes been g...
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The Rev's Family: January 2016
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Tuesday, 12 January 2016. Books I read in 2015. At least there are no blank months; and I seem to have mostly got over my bleary-eyed, sleep-deprived days of reading nothing but Asterix comics and Christian chick-lit intended for teenagers. Anyway, for anyone interested, here’s what I thought of what I read in 2015. The Labyrinth Year,. I really enjoyed this scenic novel about a pastor encountering the life of St Francis. Both gripping and fascinating. It’s on my re-read list. Written by a fellow member ...
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The Rev's Family: The Traveller and the Wise Man
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Friday, 6 May 2016. The Traveller and the Wise Man. In which I tell stories in protest, and inadvertently answer a question about the role of imagination in storytelling. This is a tale of two parts. In the first part, I was recently at a retreat day led by Malcolm Guite. There was a discussion about imagination - Guite has written about theology and poetic imagination at length in his wonderful book. Faith, Hope and Poetry,. For a good commentary on the whole thing). They are achieving these impossible ...
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The Rev's Family: December 2014
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Saturday, 13 December 2014. For this post, I would like to hand you over to my daughter, who is going to dictate the story of the nativity in her own words. The angel said: 'You're going to have a baby! And then Mary was surprised and then the angel just went away and then Mary shouted 'Joseph Joseph, the angel said I'm going to have a baby in my tummy! Then they found a baby, Jesus. They found baby Jesus. And then the wise men comed. THEN the wise men comed. And they brought applenut squash.". I am the ...
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The Rev's Family: May 2014
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Wednesday, 21 May 2014. 20 Reasons Jeremy Couldn't Sleep. Tonight I missed housegroup, one of my only sources of adult conversation, because Jeremy wouldn't go to sleep. Here are the reasons why, in his own words:. Reasons 1-10: Losta bankit, Mummy! Lost' wasn't entirely accurate, though, as he was flinging it over the side of the cot). Reason 11: Bag gone. (Yes, he had somehow managed to remove his sleeping bag and was standing up with it around his ankles.). Reason 15: Losta bankit. Reason 20: No 'leep.
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The Rev's Family: To the young author who was worried by SATs
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Monday, 16 May 2016. To the young author who was worried by SATs. Dear Young Author,. I read about you on Michael Rosen's Facebook page, where I found a link to this article. I read that you were worried, because you thought the kinds of questions that baffled you in the SATs tests might mean you had to give up on your dream of being an author. I was pleased to see that lots of authors have already responded on that page. I look forward to reading one of your books one day. I am the wife of a Rector, whi...
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