ooh, it's been a while hasn't it!!
DD's baptism yesterday. It went really well. Everyone made comments about how good she was etc etc (well, yes, she's been going to church since she was 6 days old, of course she was good! home from home! 
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We did Stanford's Te Deum in Bb and it went really well, apart from a few little errors here and there. trick is to keep going!
There were loads of bits that were dead confusing, because I was involved, DH was involved, and the other organist was Godfather, there was a lot of moving around here there and everywhere! (where normally we'd be in our positions and carrying on as normal!)
We found our wedding cake, so chopped off rough edges and served that with wine afterwards. Everyone said it tasted lovely, and hopefully noone will be poorly!
And we finished the service with the National Anthem.
We did have an announcement about the new vicar - The interviewed 2, as you kow, they offered one the job. that one decided they didn't want it after all, and so they have to start the procedure again.
I didn't ask why they didn't offer it to the other one, but i suppose it's just not done, is it!
The announcement read that they're worried that the parish profile doesn't accurately express our vision (or something like that) and aspirations, so they're going to re-write it and start again.
hopefully, someone will proofread the typos this time round. 
We're all a bit worried that it won't be the parish profile that will have to change, but the parish aspirations . Especially as we've worked so hard over the interregnum to get the parish (2 churches now) to how they work well, smoothly and suit everyone who attends. It would be awful to have to change stuff just to get someone to work for us.
The thing that I think needs to be seen is that there's no point even thinking about change until they've got people in, and the only way they can do that is by publicity... (random word meaning getting people in by hook or by crook)
we need need need to sort out using the churches in ways other than for church services - not just St Mary's but St Michael's too. It's all very well Mr Events Man (that'll be the Someone from earlier...) making all the right nooises, but he really hasn't done much to get events here - a singing group singing every now and then, a st george's event. it's not enough! Even he didn't sort out the organ concert, we did - and we've done each one so far!
But Someone takes the credit for it!