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Pull up a pew (or a fetching plastic chair) Religion Chat Thread No 6

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madhairday · 25/09/2013 08:57

Helloooooooooo!

A shiny new thread :)

How are we all today?

DS seems to have the beginning of what may be chicken pox so is in bed feeling sorry for himself. My laptop is playing up - a picture fell on it yesterday and killed the b key - it takes ages to make it respond now grrrr - and cracked the screen, so not sure what to do :(

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nickeldonkeyonadustyroad · 18/12/2013 15:12

i'll concede on no version being shit, just not what I wnt to hear in my church.
I'll do modern when I go to a modern church service (like the one at St mary's who always get the same version)

anyway, it sounds like he's chosen the trad version for christmas now (i'm kind of glad that he can see through my maor ranting and see the reasons I have are valid and not just me) mainly because he's got the modern version in ordinary time which follows straight after.

doesn't mean i think i've "won" though. and i'm not even happy about the decision now. :(

thanksamillion · 30/12/2013 06:30

Happy Christmas everyone! I know it's a bit late, but I hope that you all enjoyed the time and had good services/worship times.

We're having a few days off in Bucharest now, having given out about 700 shoe boxes in the few days before Christmas. I'm very happy because I found proper English Cadbury's chocolate yesterday in a shop Grin

thegreenheartofmanyroundabouts · 30/12/2013 07:54

Hi - also checking in post Christmas. It was very, very busy and we turned people away at one service as we were so full. We did have a back up plan and gave directions to another church that also had a carol service and as far as we can tell most of them did go there.

I've got a few days off which means hello academic study as I've done so little over the Christmas period and there is an essay due in January. Good job I enjoy it and there are lots of Christmas chocolates to keep me fortified through the texts!

Jaynebxl · 30/12/2013 11:45

Hi everyone. Hope you all had a good Christmas. Ours was totally bonkers and has helped us decide what we DON'T want to do for Christmas next year! Too many people staying for too long really. Anyway the kids had fun! Did you get any nice presents? My best one was a hot book of our wedding. We've been married almost 9 years but never got a wedding album as our photographer was ill and died a while after. We got the photos but never put into an album. Anyway my DH has had a photo album made and I absolutely love it. It was fun going through it with the dc.

nickeldonkeyonadustyroad · 30/12/2013 16:27

midnight mass eas busy, NV was really chuffed at the numbers but it wasn't that great compared with the last of the heydays.

the lord's prayer he's put in, btw, is the 1662 one, with which and them. nice for those who never hear "their" real version (and noone can say they're appeasing me, because it's not "my" version Wink)
it still fits my reasknjng though so it's all good.

nickeldonkeyonadustyroad · 30/12/2013 16:28

jayne that's really lovely :)

Bluetinkerbell · 31/12/2013 17:17

Happy birthday mhd :)

niminypiminy · 04/01/2014 14:34

Hello ladies! Milly I don't think it's shallow at all to feel happy about finding Cadbury's chocolate. When my sister lived in Los Angeles she walked for miles to a shop where they sold Cadbury's and Lemsip and marmite and other English things. She used to say that sometimes however happy you are in the other place you feel so far from home, and nothing but the taste of home will comfort you. Hope you are having a good time in Bucharest!

Nickel, glad your midnight mass was busy, that is lovely news. I went to an absolutely freezing church just round the corner, where they used incense as well (I'd never been there before so had no idea). The combination of freezingness (honestly, our breath was white) and incense gave me an asthma attack which meant I choked on the communion wine. Perhaps not the magical atmosphere of the first communion of Christmas people were expecting!

The saga of our new house continues ... just before Christmas the plumber said, in doom-laden tones, "well, you've got heat downstairs for now, but really, the boiler's not big enough for the house (not that it's a mansion!!) and it won't last much longer, and your pipework is rubbish" -- so, in a week's time she is coming back again to rip all the pipework, radiators and boiler out and start again. The expense! the cold! the no hot water! Sad

Tuo · 04/01/2014 15:13

BTDT, niminy. If it's any consolation, the difference once you get a boiler appropriate to the size of the house is massive. (Draughty Edwardian here, with - beautiful but ill-fitting original windows.)

niminypiminy · 04/01/2014 17:35

We discovered earlier today there is no loft insulation at all Shock, so after church tomorrow we will be going to buy lots of big rolls of insulation and putting it in there. No wonder the house is freezing! Tuo, that's very good to hear both that it will be worth it, and that you can survive the process of having it put in. I try not to pray about the weather, but I am praying that the week after next is mild ... and that we will be able to impose on someone to have showers at their house for a week eeek.

nickeldonkeyonadustyroad · 04/01/2014 22:20

oh niminy that's not good
our heating has been on constant because the engineer is trying stuff out.the church has been lovely.

glad you've discovered someting that will help the heat

have you got a fireplace? if so that will he'll.
we heated our old house with convector heaters and it worked okay

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madhairday · 05/01/2014 15:30

Hello all! Also checking in after a busy Christmas - I did wait til the new year before I got the lurgy! All our services/events went really well this year - super pleased. Pleased to hear of so many good things at your different events too. :)

Ouch re the asthma attack - tis why I can no longer do either freezing churches (yes I am looking at yours DMUm and DDad) or incense-y churches these days.. Hope you can get your house sorted soon, niminy, and have some warmth, not nice in this weather to be chilly. Hope no one has had any problems with the storms?

Havwn't got round to taking down decorations as yet as have been ill, but itching to get them down and back to normal now.

Happy 2014!

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thegreenheartofmanyroundabouts · 05/01/2014 18:12

I did the decorations yesterday as it is big clean day on Saturday so I combined the two. It felt really odd to have Epiphany in church with all the bling still up when my house is a tinsel free zone but at least the house is clean - hurrah!

I had the lurgy in the week before Christmas so I was just about able to sing for Midnight Mass which was good as we sing the Eucharistic Prayer and a croaking priest is very exposed at that moment.

I don't respond well to the stuff they use to get the coals to light in churches with incense so if ever I end up in a church that is smoke and bells I will have to train the servers to get the coals nice and hot without any paraffin based accelerants.

Happy New Year all!

Jaynebxl · 05/01/2014 21:21

Happy new year everyone! Can't believe the holdup is just about over :-(. Hope you got your insulation sorted, Niminy. We had a new boiler put in just before we moved house (it's all in the timing!) and spent a week rotating round the neighbours using their showers every morning. I think people got used to seeing me in my dressing gown with my toilet bag wandering up the road like I was camping!

thanksamillion · 14/01/2014 20:27

Hi there
I don't know how many of you aren't also on the prayer thread (like me) but I just picked up this thread on 'active' conversations.

So sorry DutchOma, you are very much in my prayers.

nickelbabe · 14/01/2014 20:53

thank you milly - I've known for a few days, and am going to the Memorial Service, but I didn't know how to break it on this thread (how would be appropriate)

Oma , I hope your eye will be better enough to sit and talk to us, we love you (but I know you've probably got so much to do right now!)
xxx

Dutchoma · 15/01/2014 10:52

I'm sure I will be able to talk to you and hve a hug with your beautiful daughter. I'm so curious to see how she and dgrandaughter will get on.

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madhairday · 15/01/2014 16:19

Hello all....not much to report, but just checking in. How are you all?

Oma, would love to come to the service, but dh is on a conference so not looking like it is possible. we will all have to meet up later in the year. sending you lots of love. xxx

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nickelbabe · 15/01/2014 21:15

Blush c I meant on this thread Grin yes, at the memorial day we'll definitely sit, chat and hug!
xx

niminypiminy · 18/01/2014 08:58

Hello all! Haven't been around for a while, we had to move out of our house for a week while the entire central heating system was ripped out and another put in (sitting here in the cold waiting for the plumber to come round now -- arrived home last night to find that the boiler had stopped because of a burst pipe under the floorboards Sad), and that was on top of a residential weekend and a busy week at work.

And breathe! But at least the cat, who'd disappeared all week because of the plumber being here and not us, has come back Smile.

Jaynebxl · 18/01/2014 09:51

O niminy! What a nightmare!

thegreenheartofmanyroundabouts · 18/01/2014 16:27

Sounds awful but good to see you back here.

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madhairday · 18/01/2014 17:19

Oh niminy, poor you, you''ve had a rough time of late :( Hope things settle down now!

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niminypiminy · 18/01/2014 18:00

Just taking a break from clearing up all the dust from the plumbing extravaganza. We had a brief few hours of heat, but now the boiler has shut down again. Plumber coming back tomorrow morning. Argh! We were all looking forward to having showers tonight, and now there's no hot water again. Argh argh!

... and at some point tonight, once it's clean enough to sit down, I must write a sermon for tomorrow

Tuo · 19/01/2014 20:28

Argh, Niminy... You poor thing. That sounds nightmarish. I hope that the plumber was able to sort out the problem and that you are all warm and toasty (and clean!) now. Hope the sermon went well too. (Would this be a bad time to confess that our boiler was replaced during the late summer and when the DDs and I were out of the country? [presents DH with 'DH-of-the-century' award])

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