Tas de thé
@RamsdenVerity
Followers
647
Following
1,119
Media
505
Statuses
2,574
Recovering expat. Loves books, musical theatre, camp Edwardian church music, heritage buildings, Anglo-Catholicism, vintage clothing, and the Oxford Comma.
Cumbria, 🇬🇧
Joined August 2018
Don't wanna be here?
Send us removal request.
Explore trending content on Musk Viewer
Drake
• 2188315 Tweets
Kendrick
• 1822190 Tweets
Lando
• 507818 Tweets
#GranHermano
• 338589 Tweets
GW最終日
• 287228 Tweets
Furia
• 246883 Tweets
The Heart Part 6
• 137146 Tweets
Mauro
• 128698 Tweets
連休最終日
• 92061 Tweets
Panamá
• 81874 Tweets
Mulino
• 70863 Tweets
REJECT
• 61482 Tweets
ゴールデンウィーク最終日
• 53778 Tweets
Tom Brady
• 50555 Tweets
Juliana
• 45790 Tweets
ALGS
• 40483 Tweets
Manzana
• 34779 Tweets
井上尚弥
• 21588 Tweets
ゴムの日
• 20516 Tweets
Mother I Sober
• 20202 Tweets
連休最後
• 16819 Tweets
#PodemosHablarCHV
• 11008 Tweets
Calling
@MrTimDunn
@AntCoulls
@GarethDennis
and all other railway tweeps, look what just opened in Uganda! Please spread the word!
3
22
87
I bought a tiny green AGA teapot to sit on my life-sized green AGA. The teapot has a tiny teapot of its own on the top. Anyone who says impending middle-age isn’t full of excitement is LYING.
7
3
80
Calling BTP to report:
-The 1st hr of Mamma Mia before you settle down &realise it’s meant to be awful & is therefore glorious.
-The use of the phrase “sexual union” in the Common Worship marriage service.
-Spanx.
-People who don’t make eye contact when they shake your hand.
7
7
72
65 in our little village church for Evensong this evening. Successful evangelism via beautiful, timeless, words and music? Or was it just the promise of free Pimm’s being served after the service?
8
4
85
Chaps, should I go to a wedding this week dressed as Princess Margaret?
16
1
59
@LibraryLydia
@SketchesbyBoze
I’d do nearly anything to be in the same room as Lord Peter Wimsey...Anything except be in the same room as Ace Ventura. Sorry, Lord Peter.
7
0
45
Anglitwitters Assemble!
A wonderful evening at
@CarlisleCath
with
@_F_B_G_
@TheWomanfredi
&
@revbcarter
for Fergus’s brilliant talk as part of the cathedral’s 900th birthday celebrations.
5
3
46
I got to see a lovely castle yesterday. 100% would recommend castle-based therapy for banishing sad thoughts.
5
0
47
Feeling v.thankful today. My wee church choir sang stonkingly well (including a Brewer Nunc + my fave loony hymn ‘Ye who own the faith of Jesus’). Got a congratulatory email from parishioner I’d never met + a young couple who were there have asked us to sing for their wedding ❤️
2
2
45
My “little” church choir is so big now & finally has enough men that we can sit tenors on one side of the stalls & basses on t’other, & have had to add extra chairs next to stalls to fit everyone. And what a great, rich noise we make all together! Deo Gracias!
1
0
47
Our dinner is getting cold, while my husband pens a disapproving letter to the Vicar about today’s sermon…
5
1
41
Happy 30th birthday,
@_F_B_G_
I’ll refrain from sharing any of the truly horrifying photos I possess of the two of us together, so here’s the one nice one I could find:
6
0
44
My father has decreed that the dress code for my mother's funeral next week should be bright colours. Would it be totally inappropriate/extra to crack out a full Margo Leadbetter multicoloured maxi dress for the occasion?
15
1
41
Amazing procession, Evensong and benediction at
@CarlisleCath
today. Wonderful witness to the people of Carlisle as we processed through the city, then the Cathedral full to bursting, top hymns and music, and clouds of incense (my hair still smells of it.) I am so so happy!
6
3
37
Thai railways 1st class sleeper carriages are really rather nice! There’s even a proper shower in the communal bathroom!
4
4
37
After 3hours stuck on trains, I finally got home, sat in the garden, drank about 3 mouthfuls of G&T, and promptly signed up to participate in an archaeological dig on Monday (when I had planned to spend the day finishing finishing my IHBC application). Kids: don’t drink!
4
1
32
Quote from churchwardens’ training, repeated at last night’s PCC “the old ways don’t open new doors”& “you have to keep changing. Don’t do the same old cycle of Harvest, Advent etc every year”. 😡
@WalkerMarcus
@chinmj
@_F_B_G_
discuss…
35
6
31
@grrrlbrarian
@holbolrob
@iggigg
Preach! No man has ever lived up to the early childhood sight of Kermit as Captain Smollett, in an open-necked white shirt, sword fighting Tim Curry.
1
1
23
Tonight I will be hosting a dinner party featuring a prawn cocktail starter, wearing a green floral maxi dress. Living the Margo Leadbitter life to the full!
3
0
30
Extremely wholesome and niche late birthday/early Christmas gift from the hubster. Anglican Twitter friends, behold! (Credit to
@caraprocella
for the original idea)
8
0
27
Today a miracle occurred - a man I’d never met turned up for my choir rehearsal. Said he’d just moved to the parish & would like to join the choir. Has sung in robed church choirs since the age of 6, & can do tenor or bass as needed. Having heard him, he has a nice voice, too!!!
1
0
28
@womenlikeuspod
I refuse to participate in this unedifying spectacle in which women are constantly pitted against each other in order to break down the sisterhood.
(But Kate, obvs)
3
0
25
Today I went to York and:
-attended a staff conference
-bought an entire Royal Doulton dinner/tea set from a charity shop window
-attended Evensong at
@YorkMinChoir
-dined solo on Vietnamese food.
A good day, all-in-all!
3
0
24
I am listening to the cathedral bellringers in full flow, and I am eating bacon. God is good.
0
0
24
I have to go and sight sing a mystery mass setting and anthem this morning, avec hangover. Pray for me.
2
0
24
Wrote & led the Intercessions at church for the first time this morning. Really weird & moving experience, looking out at everyone in prayer as they react to your words & respond to your lead. Big sense of responsibility & humbling power, still not sure how I feel about it.
2
0
24
My colleague on a zoom call just now had an *actual skull* on the sideboard behind him, and that sort of nonchalant gothic energy is the reason I thank the lord every day that I got this job.
3
0
23
The hubster went to Deanery Synod last night for the first time. Has he lost:
A) the plot
B) the will to live
C) his faith in humanity
?
Answers on the back of a postcard.
15
1
22
Stranded at Birmingham New Street for an hour. Pray for me.
6
0
23
Made my first ever meme, you guys! (Please don’t tell me someone already did this joke years ago)
2
0
20
Prayers for my lovely friend and fellow choir member, Madeleine, who was received into the Church of England at today’s Pentecost Holy Communion, Deo Gratias!
2
0
21
The announcement came through while I was running our church choir rehearsal. We stood up and sang God Save the King, then rehearsed the Nunc Dimittis: “Lord, now lettest now thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word”. May she rest in peace and rise in glory!
0
0
21
My favourite lovely wonky place
We've just hit 1000 followers! Woop!
How about we reach 1122 to celebrate our 900th anniversary? 😉
6
29
248
0
5
22
Well Leicester is pretty cool!
Visiting the
#HighStreet
Heritage Action Zone but also taking time to check out the Old Town and its fab independent boutiques and cafes. Will have to come back soon!
3
2
21
Here’s some of church choir channelling those cute ‘choirboys in the snow’ photo shoots:
2
1
22
It’s my birthday, twitter chums! I’m 34 today. My mother-in-law bought me a huge book of the Flower Fairies, and I can honestly say that I’m absolutely mesmerised by it*
*might be something to do with the champagne breakfast my husband brought me
7
0
21
What a wonderful video! I’m not even from Hull and I’m sitting at my desk with tears welling up just watching it.
We are really proud of this film and what we're doing to promote, protect and celebrate our rich maritime heritage, thanks to The
@HeritageFundNOR
&
#nationallottery
players
#NationalLottery25
#HullYMC
You can watch it here 👀➡️
Made by
@WeAreE52
1
14
32
3
2
17
Dressed up to scare local children trick or treating this Halloween. Then the first trick or treaters to ring the doorbell were….my adult friends, bringing me soup because they heard my boiler was broken.
2
2
20
I cannot express how much pleasure the
@NotJustTudors
(
@sixteenthCgirl
) &
#gonemedieval
(
@CatJarman
@MattLewisAuthor
) podcasts bring me. Fun, friendly, informative. Like being a fly on the wall for a really high-quality Oxford tute, but where the tutor & tutee are both experts!
3
0
22
Today I sang for a retirement home and dressed up as the/a Queen
1
0
18
Starting the new year as I mean to go on: in a historic railway station (Bangkok, in this instance), in pearls, cuddling a cat.
1
2
18
I’m afraid the vicar has made another slightly creepy poster for our next Evensong this Sunday, but please do come along - lots of lovely music!
Including:
Farrant-Lord for thy tender mercy’s sake.
Goss-O Saviour of the world.
6pm at Wetheral Church, Cumbria! Tell your friends!
1
1
18
Just realised that yesterday marked 3 whole years for me at
@HistoricEngland
. What a brilliant 3 yrs it’s been! Every day is a joy & a privilege. The buildings I get to visit are remarkable & my colleagues are the best!
3
0
20
Found an old Cumberland & Westmorland Pevsner and was most amused to find our house described as a “grossly high-Victorian villa”. Oh Nikolaus, don’t hold back, tell us what you really think!
1
0
17
Good morning to these jolly little toadstools which popped up in my garden today
#wholesometweet
2
0
19
Singing Noel Coward around a piano, with pork pies and sparkling wine in hand. Perfect Friday night.
2
0
17
Please, for the love of all that is holy, do not let the Dr Who writers see these outfits, or they will create an episode which gives me nightmares for years to come!
4
0
18
Halloween 2023 - the Sycamore Gap Massacre (please don’t cancel me!)
2
1
18
I would like it to be known that I, not “Mr Ramsden”, wrote and directed the panto. Ahem ahem
@_F_B_G_
3
0
16
@s8mb
Only experienced it for the first time this month. Just bloody brilliant, weirdly spacious & impressive stations & platforms, & feels like a transit system in a foreign country, so unused am I to anything actually new & fit-for-purpose in this country!
1
0
18
In terms of hymns, today was a “bangers only” Holy Communion. Very stirring, if you pardon the pun!
1
0
18
We’re on holiday.
Hubby is on his 2nd work call of the evening.
I’m on my 4th gin.
2
0
16
Sitting in my sickbed with the window open so I can hear the carol singing on the village green.
1
0
17
If ever I die doing something honourable, and you want to memorialise me, please don’t turn me into a gargoyle/grotesque on Carlisle Cathedral. Thank you.
Today is the anniversary of the death of PC George Russell, who was killed in the line of duty on 10 February 1965. In what we believe is unique amongst the country's Cathedrals, PC Russell is immortalised in a carved stone grotesque if you pass today, gaze up, remember him.
3
19
142
1
2
17
At tonight’s Midnight Mass, I saved the whole church and its congregation (of about 7 people) from fiery doom, when the advent ring got a bit carried away and all the foliage burst into flame. An excellent start to Christmas Day, even if I do say so myself!
2
0
16
Final Midnight Mass anecdote..
Managed to blow vast amounts of hot wax all over my hand, my mask, my bag and my best coat when blowing out the big candle. Looks like I’ve been doing something deeply inappropriate to a large male elephant. Merry Christmas, all!
3
1
15
Just got a bit carried away at an auction of promises and accidentally bought 6 hours of babysitting, despite having no kids.
4
0
16
Choral Evensong this week was so good that I have convinced my vicar to let us do one every month from now on, hoorah!!!
1
0
17
Driving (well, limping) through enormous snowdrifts on the M6 near Tebay. Fascinating, magical, and not a little unnerving. Slow and steady crawl home.
4
1
17
Thinking of making myself a lockdown calendar. Like an advent calendar but designed to get me through ‘til 2nd Dec with a little bit of chocolate every day. At which point I can transition seamlessly into my regular Advent calendar with a little bit of chocolate every day.🍫📆🍫
2
0
16
An extremely sunny day in Corbridge, featuring Corbridge Roman Town, the River Tyne, an extremely souind children’s book, a vicar’s pele tower, & a partly-Saxon church containing a complete Roman archway!
4
0
16
Does anyone know of a church looking to sell/donate a set (c.20) of Parish Psalters or similar? Our church choir now sings a monthly evensong & we’d love to stop wasting paper & ink on endless printing! We’re based near Carlisle but I’m happy to pay postage! Thanks in advance😊
3
6
16
Going into our 9 Lessons & Carols with half the sops and altos off sick…time to crack out my loudest voice!
2
2
15
Sang a concert at Ambleside Church yesterday. Favourite bits were the windows with my name on, and the wonderful wartime mural which includes actual parishioners and clergy from that time! (Didn’t get a photo of my own of it, so this is via Google)
1
0
14
@JayHulmePoet
Please please please make a homemade pilot and put it on YouTube! Then we don’t have to wait for silly tv producers to get their act together before we get to enjoy watching all the happy wholesomeness!
0
0
14
YAAASSSSSSSSSSS
This is the cope that will be worn by our Dean, the Very Reverend Dr David Hoyle, at tomorrow's
#Coronation
.
Made from crimson velvet and decorated with embroidered flowers and stars, the cope was made for the coronation of Charles II in 1661 and is the oldest in our collection.
99
594
4K
2
0
15
As Christ broke free of the tomb, so did Nic and I break free of the locked West Walls Car Park after staying in an underground cocktail bar too long with
@revbcarter
after Easter Vigil.
#Alleluia
#EasterMiracle
2
0
12
Went to Wigan Pier. It’s very short!
Not pictured: my colleague Beth cackling with uproarious laughter for about ten minutes at the difference between 1) what she’d envisaged and been dying to visit while we were in Wigan, and 2) the reality.
1
2
14
“Why would anyone want to live in the North?” (My father, on hearing we’ve been house hunting in Cumbria).
2
0
14
Great visit to Ormskirk High Street Heritage Action Zone to see the great public realm works, administered by
@HistoricEngland
, making this lovely town an even better place to live, shop, & spend time.
@Holder123Robert
0
1
13
Our church - with the Holy Week cross, shroud, and crown of thorns - looked so beautiful this morning when I arrived, it just took my breath away.
#goodfriday
0
0
14
Today I have been making very chocolatey fridge tray cakes for a ‘Reception into the CofE plus Pentecost’ service tomorrow. I’m going to experiment with making flames and doves out of coloured icing later. I fear I have become a caricature of myself.
2
0
14
Update re: previous plea for Parish Psalters: yesterday a huge box of them arrived from anon.benefactor
@eastldnevensong
& we used them straight away at choir last night. I don’t know which parish church you sourced them from or who you are, but thank you so very much! 🥰
1
1
13
@emilyrwickham
@WalkerMarcus
@chinmj
@_F_B_G_
Well yes, exactly. Plus I think doing the old traditions well doesn’t stop you also introducing good and interesting new stuff too. There’s room for both. Advocates for the new seem to see the old as actively repulsive, rather than something which many existing worshippers love.
4
0
14
@_F_B_G_
If it’s any consolation, I realised that if I’d never accepted the worst job I ever had, which ended in humiliation, I wouldn’t’ve gone onto my next (lovely) job, which set me up for life. Instead I would’ve picked a better but mediocre job & probably still be stuck there now.
3
0
12
Evensong (a belated Candlemas one, with the church full of candlelight) was gorgeous this evening. Can’t think of a better way to end the week. Deo Gracias!
0
0
12
@OptimoPrincipi
The bear looks so sweetly happy, and like he’s about to take the boar into his surprise birthday party.
0
0
13
Just performed Byrd Laudibus in Sanctis, Stanford Latin Magnificat, and Holst Nunc Dimittis.
What. Absolute. Stonkers.
10/10 would sing again.
3
0
12