I'm a bit 
today, another deadly sin.
We had the PCC meeting last night, and I did my bit about the magazine, saying thank you very much to everyone who helped, provided articles and printed and distributed.
adn not thanks to those who didn't do anything. I even made it easy for you etc, giving ideas of what you could tell me etc etc.
explained that it's an outreach programme just as important as any other we do - Distributor confirmed that it goes to doctor's, funeral directors, dentist's, the hospital etc etc (all free for them).
and that it's really important that everything we do goes in there so that people think "ooh, that sounds exciting, I'll go along there"; that it's an advert for our church.
One lady (who always takes offence: she's just like me, flying off the handle at the slightest thing...) griped about the fact that noone's got time - so busy putting on evens that no time to write about them etc etc.
She was one who I asked for timesfor the uniformed groups, so I was able to say that she did give me important information. confirmed that all i need is dates and times, and I would make it look pretty.
then the man who did the St george's day article and photos started to have a huge go at me for not creditting him on the article or the photos. going on and on about the fact if he sends stuff to newpapers etc that they always put that he took the photos etc etc etc,( and that he was angry that he hadn't had his permission sought for putting the photos on the website: this isn't true, because I said to him in conversation that I would send them to the Webmaster for the website) and he was so nasty and vicious about his attack, I completely lost it and had a (i want to put tantrum, but it was completely justified and I can't think of a better word) benny about it, explaining loudly and between expletives that it was the first time I'd done anything like this, and that I'd spent 2 months on it (if you include all the research I did, looking at other people's magazines etc, it mounts up easily to 2 months if not more), and that apart from the people I'd already thanked, noone helped me. That the St George's day article was the last thing that went in (the copy date was held specifically for that article!), and that I had to format it, proof-read it etc, and that it didn't occur to me to even check that it was creditted (and if you look through the rest of the magazine, it's the only thing, apart from what I wrote, that hasn't been creditted) - it was literally copy+pasted from the email he sent me. ((and in actual fact, his document only has "DC" at the end of it, so I probably assumed that he didn't want his name printed or something)).
anyway, I ended up leaving after my burst, while one church warden sat there trying to bumble that he only wanted to thank me for all the hard work etc. to which I said that it didn't matter, that I didn't do it for thanks, and that it was hard work, and that I put in all that effort just to be critcized.
and that it was "really unfair that the whole thing was ruined by someone having a fucking mardy about his name not being put at the end of his article".
The office admin lady has just been in to say that the lady (who takes offence) really stuck up for me after I'd gone, saying that I had done lots of hard work, and that all that ever happens in our benefice is that we pick holes in what's been done wrong, without recognizing how much hard work has been put into making sure our churches are doing more and brilliantly during the interregnum, and that there should be more praise on what's been done well.