It's been a very varied week, this week, full of "things they don't teach you at vicar school"...

Getting to grips with the impact of legislation designed to address the loan sharks that are payday loans on the making of small loans to unincorporated bodies, such as churches, and the knock consequences for a charity of which I am a trustee, as we thought through how best to maintain our ethos in the light of this.

With others, gathering into one place as much scrap metal as we possibly could from its assorted places around the church building, and then getting it sold for recycling... and discovering I can do better weight estimates than the first company to quote!

Sharing the privilege of pastoral conversations, including singing hymns from memory at the bedside of a very elderly lady...

Supping tea with 'Gandalf' and sharing conversation with a very special group of folk...

Now I have a free weekend, which is a real treat, even if thus far I have mostly been catching up on overdue tasks!