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Post by Mari on Jun 10, 2013 6:53:21 GMT
Sounds like you've been busy, Fr. G. I missed you and so did the countdown thread
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Jun 10, 2013 9:23:44 GMT
Frantic, Mari. Quite frantic. There is a little bit of an easing off this week but moving day is starting to get close so I am working through all the cupboards that have not been touched for years ... the wheelie bins try to run away and hide every time I go outside the house. The most challenging space was the store beside the study but that is now virtually empty apart from my summer time vestments (the Advent and Lent kit has been packed already). Next major target is the study itself which is going to be quite a challenge ... then the attic by the main bathroom, all sorts of unknown treasures in there I shouldn't wonder ...
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Post by Mari on Jun 10, 2013 20:43:26 GMT
*sigh* I should imagine so! My house isn't that large, but I have so much stuff! When you have a real house, I imagine the amount only goes up.
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Post by Alvamiga on Jun 11, 2013 8:29:59 GMT
I have found that, personally, the amount of stuff stays pretty much constant. I have more beds and suchlike as there are more rooms, but the bulk of my stuff is unrelated to the size of where I live.
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Jun 11, 2013 14:26:52 GMT
If only ... I feel as though a turning point has been reached: the winter sitting room has been taken out of use and become a box room ... it already has a lot of boxes in it. Arrangements have been made for the sofas to be distributed to the poor ...
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Post by Alvamiga on Jun 11, 2013 18:14:21 GMT
I wondered who it was that dumped the sofas in people's front gardens on the council estates!
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Jun 12, 2013 12:32:55 GMT
There's a special international charity that deals with such things: Ottomannes sans Frontieres
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Post by Alvamiga on Jun 12, 2013 20:31:48 GMT
Is that a term for sofas with the arms cut off the ends?
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Jun 13, 2013 8:07:14 GMT
No - that's a chaise longue ....
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Post by Mari on Jun 13, 2013 16:59:36 GMT
No, a chaise longue still has one arm. You need it to lounge on.
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Jun 13, 2013 22:01:39 GMT
I've always wondered about that ... shouldn't it be a chaise lounge?
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Post by Mari on Jun 14, 2013 6:19:40 GMT
You're right, that would make sense. However, it's a French term and when have the French ever made sense?
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Post by tangent on Jun 14, 2013 6:21:10 GMT
The French never make any sense of what I tell them
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Post by Alvamiga on Jun 14, 2013 8:18:08 GMT
"Chapeau" means "hat" "Oeuf" means "egg." It's like those French have a different word for everything! --Steve Martin
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Jun 16, 2013 9:43:21 GMT
Odd isn't it ...
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Jul 5, 2013 9:59:01 GMT
Pardon the prolonged silence here on this thread, what with the sale of the presbytery falling through and all it has been a rather fraught couple of weeks however all is coming back together again, a new offer has been accepted and the vendor next in the chain has been very gracious about waiting - alles es - noch einmal - in ordnung.
Vieleicht.
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Post by tangent on Jul 5, 2013 10:13:46 GMT
Would the term presbytery be the house where you live? The Oxford Dictionary has three meanings for presbytery, a body of Church elders and ministers, the eastern part of a church and the house of a Roman Catholic priest. I presume you are high Anglican and are borrowing the term for your own domicile.
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Post by Kye on Jul 5, 2013 11:51:30 GMT
We say Rectory because that's where the Rector (me) lives.
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Jul 5, 2013 12:55:35 GMT
Whereas I am merely a curate - hence presbytery - but I suppose we could invent a term for the home of the Organising Chaplain of the Critical Incident Chaplaincy Service ... Fuehrerbunker perhaps?
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Post by Kye on Jul 5, 2013 13:09:01 GMT
Chaplainery?
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Post by JoeP on Jul 5, 2013 13:14:51 GMT
Curacy? Cure? Doesn't a chaplain live in a chapel?
COCCICS, pronounced coccyx: Cottage of the Organising Chaplain of the Critical Incident Chaplaincy Service
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Post by Kye on Jul 5, 2013 14:37:44 GMT
Ooo, good one, Joe!
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Jul 5, 2013 18:07:37 GMT
Jolly good - and it is fairly appropriate translated into Old Church Mordorian as well ...
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Jul 8, 2013 8:51:50 GMT
Well what a lovely day yesterday was to be sure - not least because it is the height of the soft fruit harvest in these parts so in the cool of the evening I was picking raspberries and red currants in my garden to my hearts content. Lots and lots of them to freeze as a happy memory of what has really been a lovely garden to tend.
Sadly I had to cut out a dead privet from the little hedge I grew from cuttings some years ago, most of the hedge has done very well but for some reason the middle section has been prone to die back and I have had to replant it more than once ... that will be a problem for the new owners with any luck.
All is not lost on the privet front though - not least because the wood is very slow growing and makes convincing loads for the 1/45 scale wagons when cut to appropriate lengths. The bark is very thin indeed - just a surface discolouration really - and that adds to the effect. Trouble is that it is difficult to source in the thicknesses I need unless someone is thinning a hedge or similar.
However, the biggest news of the day is that I am withdrawing temporarily from parish ministry with the bishop's agreement so that I can concentrate on writing my thesis. Fifteen months of solid slog should see it done just before my 65th birthday. The congregations were told yesterday, happily I did not have to give out the news myself except at the early mass, so beginning of the new university term I shall be off. The bishop is giving me Permission to Officiate, which is not quite as grand as a licence but amounts to the same thing.
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Post by Kye on Jul 8, 2013 11:49:51 GMT
Lots of changes in your life, FrG! Is there a buyer for the house yet? 15 months of writing... sounds like hell to me, but I think you're made of stronger stuff.
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Jul 8, 2013 18:08:16 GMT
Yes, there is a buyer ... hope this one stays the course ...
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Post by Kye on Jul 8, 2013 18:12:56 GMT
Amen!
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Jul 15, 2013 9:02:53 GMT
What a strange place I find myself in. Although I am not leaving the parish until mid-September I am already winding down duties quite sharply - because I am not starting any new work. I have already taken my last wedding for the foreseeable future and yesterday I conducted my last baptism. Three children (15, 8, 1) from the same family.
And of course the folk who cannot cope with any kind of change are all whinging about 'how will we ever manage without you' to which the answer is 'perfectly well, in fact'.
Never mind today is the weekend, although in fact I am working on my annual review documentation this morning. I may spend a little time in the workshop this afternoon as my grand project to build a new fleet of coaches for the 1/45 Austrian line is coming nicely to the boil. I have soldered together the brass etches that form the bodywork and have already got the chassis ready: the detail work will be in bringing the two main units together.
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Post by Kye on Jul 15, 2013 12:32:44 GMT
Enjoy your downtime FrG. You'll be remembering it fondly when you're in the midst of chaos.
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Jul 15, 2013 15:31:12 GMT
Chaos flees at the mention of my name! Along with sanity ...
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