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So here’s a bit of unsolicited advice: as unpopular as it is to say,
#Covidisnotover
and the new strain of
#CovidEris
is nasty. Mine started with a sore throat, headache and then flu type exhaustion but still didn’t test positive for another day. However, 15hrs later… 1/
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Thank you for this
@mrjamesob
Four weeks ago, my children said goodbye to their father via videocall and I sat by his bedside alone in full PPE. I, and so many others, have sacrificed so much.
@LBC
This is James O'Brien's incredibly powerful response to Boris Johnson defending Dominic Cummings. A must listen.
@mrjamesob
|
#CummingsConference
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So if you have cold symptoms, please test repeatedly and isolate. You could save your own and someone else’s life. Many thanks to the team
@OFFICIALWMAS
for their cheerful help (don’t worry, the cat who escaped came back!) and the doctors and nurses at Walsall Manor Hospital.
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Well that was short lived. Covid at home team not happy with me so have sent me straight back to hospital. Waiting for assessment now.
#COVID19
#CovidEris
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I was in an
#ambulance
with a paramedic shouting my name, shining a light in my eyes and shaking me alert. My SATS had dropped to 87 (92 is the ambulance threshold) so barely any oxygen in my blood. Been in hospital 3days and now being discharged to community covid team. 2/
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Once again, the staff at my son’s school have proven they will go above and beyond - this afternoon, after a number of arrangements between SALT, Headteacher, Class Team, Care Manager and TAs, two members of staff brought him over to the hospital to visit me. They’d given him 1/
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My husband, barely conscious, whispered “love you” to his son. The words were so faint, I had to translate, holding the iPad as his son wept. A week later, he died in hospice. But they had to say goodbye to valued colleagues over wine, because it was only right.
#Partygate
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and the feeling was mutual! He spent 45mins wrapped around me like an octopus on my bed, cuddling as close as he possibly could and saying, “Mummy nice! Adam and Mummy, we are friends! I love you!”
I may not be physically better but I’m definitely emotionally better. 🥰
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This morning I told my parishes I will be returning to Shropshire and, health allowing, in September will be taking up a part time job as secondary school chaplain. Until then, I will be resting and hoping to recover from
#longcovid
Your prayers are welcome as we prepare to move.
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Doctor has finally been. Being discharged with antibiotics since I’m not fighting for air anymore. Will go home to recover!
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So thank you to all those who have retweeted and offered kind comments, I appreciate those (and will ignore the others!) An update: after initial ambulance transfer and admission to
@WalsallHcareNHS
for 3day admission, I was discharged Fri evening, having improved. 1/
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a social story to explain where mummy was and where he was going and two staff were sent in case he became distressed and needed support. A visit like this is a lot of work for a lot of people, but they did it to support us both. Adam was absolutely delighted to see me 2/
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Four weeks ago my husband died of cancer, following government and hospice guidelines, I was at his bedside in full PPE but I sat alone. No family members were with me because of lockdown travel restrictions.
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I’m reliably informed that the VAST number of bishops at
#LambethConference
are warmly and joyfully sharing communion with one another - on every level. That statement has received a lot of airtime but it (thankfully) represents a tiny proportion of those present.
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Today, with the help of my solicitors, I have served a Section 20 Order on the LA, which sees my beautiful son become resident at his school. This is a day I always knew would come. This is a day I hoped would not come yet.
#SENDCrisis
#SENDAction
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@dennisswender
On behalf of women and girls everywhere who have experienced similar “playful” behaviour, thank you for helping her.
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@countryboywales
Indeed! So many have connected annoyance with the government with avoidance of caution and that’s not good!
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Just two weeks after this image was apparently taken, I sat alone at my husbands funeral, which only a dozen friends could attend and no one could come near me or hug me. If only we’d thought to order cheese and wine. It’s not acceptable.
My fellow priests have taken a truly awful number of covid funerals. I said prayers with one family in a car-park and then walked the coffin alone straight to the back of the crematorium. It was heartbreaking.
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Such a relief to sleep through the night without anyone waking me “just for some quick obs!” The cats demanded breakfast at 5:45am but since they’re now cuddling again, I’ll forgive them. They’ve endured a traumatic abandonment! 🙄
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I love love love that my son’s new soothing phrase to help himself get to sleep is to say, “in peace we will lie down and sleep…in peace we will lie down and sleep….” 🥰🥰
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“You are not the darkness you endured, you are the light that refused to surrender”
#ThoughtForTheDay
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So on that basis, as I’ve learned the hard way, if it isn’t known about, nothing ever changes. So here’s a few tags for those who have been there along the way:
@MichelePaduano
@BBCMBuchanan
@JournoChar
@ShaunLintern
@Laneycakes
@jimallthetime
/end
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Very grateful to the staff
@brewersfayre
#chesterfield
Soft play doesn’t open till 12 but my
#autistic
son can’t handle playing with lots of noisy children so, after some discussion, they agreed to let him in early as we’re in the hotel.
#reasonableadjustments
#disability
#thanks
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Gutted I’m not well enough to go to a church building, this will be my first Christmas ever without doing so. Very grateful for online church that still allows me to participate.
@churchofengland
#onlinechurch
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@daniel_bath
And she is amazing! I will never forget the first time I heard her play before assembly at school before calling out, “mummy! Is it pretty?” Yes Lucy, it was very pretty.
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And he face grew more and more grave as he realised how sick I was and how severe my asthma. He agreed to move me to AMU to see a Dr there. I was taken through the crowds of A&E despite being a known covid positive before ending up in a side room. PPE was variable depending 8/
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At one point, they moved me out of the side room and moved a frail elderly lady straight in without cleaning. Horrified, I reminded them I’m covid positive but later they said she was as well so it didn’t matter. I hope I don’t have any other linked infections! 11/
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…he hasn’t even seen you?!” It was awful. I could say more but you get the point I’m sure. Through gasps for air, I repeated that a doctor wanted me admitted as it wasn’t safe and I agreed. My NOK said the same. Eventually, he agreed to get a 2nd opinion from AMU. 6/
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Just seen my own usual respiratory consultant who (thankfully) was just as concerned as yesterdays respiratory consultant. He has agreed I’m not going anywhere until I’m more stable. Even though I’m now covid negative, it’s done a doozy on my asthma.
#CovidIsNotOver
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Despite this, because tests were clear and SATS stable, they kept wanting to send me home even while I gasped for air as a known severe asthmatic. I kept saying I needed help and finally they agreed to keep me in A&E overnight, in a side room at least. 10/
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Still in hospital but have to say the staff at Walsall Manor Hospital are unfailingly polite, friendly and helpful. Being in hospital is never easy but friendly staff helps!
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on staff choice. Over approx 8hrs, I had SATS and BP measured, bloods, chest X-ray and only when i begged a nebuliser (6hrs in). I was panting trying to talk to staff each time they came in, turning myself inside out coughing. 9/
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Finally, the Holy Grail is real! They managed to swap patients around and move me to the respiratory ward at 11:30pm last night. That box in the ceiling is air con baby…..relief!
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I’d never been to Walsall Manor before as it’s out of my area but the staff there were unfailingly friendly, polite and helpful. Even though hospital is a tough place to be, their approach made it much easier. After 1 night at home, a doctor from the Covid at Home team rang me 2/
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families, I try to avoid these hospitals whenever possible because that trauma goes deep. But even though this is a totally different department and time, it shouldn’t be THIS difficult to get help for someone with such severe medical history! 16/
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Still inexcusable. Widowed just four weeks ago, I’m on my own with an autistic, hearing and visually impaired child who exhibits violent and challenging behaviour when I’m ill or sad. I stayed home with him alone.
#noexcuse
Now the Cummings saga takes a twist
I know what it’s like to deal with an autistic child, but couple that with one in a wheelchair with hydrocephalus, sleep apnea, spina bifida & a wife currently in a wheelchair & I didn’t leave the house when I was ill
I’m on my own caring BTW
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And after a thorough phone assessment of my current symptoms of severe brittle asthma, positive covid test and vulnerability in living alone, with my history of rapid severe asthma attacks that merit paramedics, he didn’t want me at home. He said it was unsafe as I could 3/
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“No, no, ABSOLUTELY NOT!! If you think you can just come swanning in here AS IF YOU OWN THE PLACE, after ABANDONIGATING US for fifteen FURREVERS, pick us up and instantly get cuddles, YOU’VE GOT ANOTHER THINK COMING HOOMUN!!!!! NO!!!”
(I’m home)
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@KateCushing2
Thank you. Sadly my first bout with covid in 2020 destroyed my health and this is number 3 so my optimism isn’t high!
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He then left me in an isolated side room with no monitoring, no meds and no call bell. It took around 1.5hrs for another Dr to arrive saying the first had said I didn’t need admitting but was insisting, so he was here to assess again. He watched, listened and actually heard, 7/
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@brisofa
Indeed. And it’s a nasty one! I know a fair few folk with it and a number have been very unwell, one other nearly needing to be admitted but narrowly escaping.
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This morning, after 24hrs, I’ve been given another small cup of tea and two slices of toast. I had my own marmite with me of course! Of course I know A&E isnt a catering facility but nutrition much?! So far, I haven’t seen a doctor but fully expect they’ll only 13/
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deteriorate too quickly to get help if it were needed. So he insisted I return to my local hospital, PRH in Telford and made an appt for assessment for admission via
#Shropdoc
so I went. Sadly the first Dr there was completely dismissed, disinterested, didn’t listen and just 4/
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wanted to send me home with steroids (which I already had been on for a week). I had to repeat my current and past history multiple times and at one point he even said, “The team at Walsall won’t have discharged you on a whim. What makes this doctor think he knows better when 5/
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Last night my child called for me.
He wept for me.
Screamed for me.
Thrashed and kicked out because he wanted me.
And, for the first time ever in his life,
I did not go.
#SENDAction
#SENDCrisis
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29 hours in and finally…. It may have been lukewarm and ‘interesting’ but I wasn’t about to turn it down!
#patientnutrition
#hospital
#sath
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Insist on discharging me again. This time I will likely accept so long as my breathing isn’t worse so I can go home to recover from hospital! I KNOW the
#NHS
is cracking under the strain and of course there have been some lovely, kind staff here and I have thankfully seen 14/
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I gotta say, not many could pull off this look…. 😆
“We are Borg. You will be assimilated.”
#CovidIsNotOver
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Also possibly of note, I arrived at Shropdoc at 10am yesterday. I’ve had access to water but asked for food at 4pm yesterday and was given a ‘single slice’ cheese sandwich, of which I couldn’t eat the bread due to recent surgery. So a slice of cheese and small cup of tea. 12/
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@1goodtern
Thank you. All prayers gratefully appreciated. FWIW, I was actually exposed to covid at my son’s special needs residential school where it’s now doing the rounds. I had tested negative on Sunday or would never have taken the church service! Symptoms started Mon, ++LFT tues.
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#Ofsted
inspectors arrived flanked by police. Wow. Just wow. This is seriously how we determine the quality of children’s education?! As school chaplain in one school and chair of governors in another, I’ve never seen a teacher who wasn’t trying their best under immense pressure.
Flanked by police, Ofsted inspectors arrive at primary as uprising spreads after Ruth Perry headteacher of downgraded school took her own life
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Recovery is very slow, but happening. Yesterday morning, I had a mtg at my son’s school, and knowing I wouldn’t have the energy to wait for the end of the school day, they arranged for him to have a lunchbreak with him for an hour of cuddles, so lovely! 🥰
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Ah well it was wishful thinking! Blue light NHS taxi at midnight last night and after fifteen hours on an A&E trolley, am now on a ward until my breathing stabilises. Covid Eris is not fun!
#COVID19
#CovidEris
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1) It's currently 5:45am. For the last 1.5 hours, I've been working on Adam's current EHCP, making comments on the amendments that school and the LA want to make to be returned to our solicitor.
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Home from hospital and began as I mean to continue: a 4.5hr ‘nap’ followed by tea and toast and a return to bed! The cats are of course doing a *full* ignore. Hoomum dared to ‘abandon’ them without prior approval. I mean, this level of ignore takes commitment!
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So, today is finally the day - for answers? For accountability? For making sure no other families endure what we have? All of the above I hope.
#Ockreview
#ockendenreport
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How very wonderful…. GP has me on a very short leash as am very unwell. Really hoping not to need blue light transport :-(
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I’m finding it extraordinary how many posts I’m seeing with people relieved there are no restrictions before New Year and so inviting the world to their party. 100K infections a day isn’t a joke. I just don’t understand people.
#COVID19
#NewYear2022
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Then I see a photo of
@synod
- hundreds of people, gathered indoors, who will almost certainly have contact with vulnerable parishioners on their return to parishes throughout the country in five days time. Masks? physical distancing?
#Covid_19
is not over!
@churchofengland
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I am immensely disappointed to report that Angus did not wake me at midnight and 4am to check my blood pressure, pulse or temperature and even more disappointed that Schrodinger didn’t bring me a morning cup of tea -
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Even in dark places, beauty can be found (and enough improvement to at least leave the ward for a few minutes!)
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@Number10cat
These are the faces that say, “Hoomum! Open the cat flap AT ONCE! What is this “cold” of which you speak? It’s Britain, it never gets really cold - or that’s what you tell us anyway. So WHY can’t we go OUT???”
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I am currently in hospital where every member of staff wears a mask, gloves, a plastic apron thing and in some cases safety glasses as well. Everyone from consultants to cleaners. All day. 12hr shifts. 1/
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Hoomama, this level of ongoing abandonment is utterly unacceptable. We are not prepared to restart the exhaustive process of training needed to cope with a cat sitter. Get back here at once! We will of course then punish and ignore you but that’s not the point.
#CatsOffTwitter
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One Sister was in the ward at 7am, I saw her sent for a break at 1pm. She was back at 1:30pm and still there when I was moved to a different ward at 8:30pm. She was also still smiling. That’s an
#NHS
hero but to expect this of humans is more proof that
#hospitals
are breaking.
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Thankfully I’m improving but am being kept in hospital for another day until medics can be sure. Grateful for their diligent care.
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And yet as the news breaks that it is perfectly ok for a senior government aide to travel across the country while those with him were experiencing covid symptoms, I am outraged. One rule for them and another for us?! Not acceptable.
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Sigh…the problem with
#chronicillness
is that there’s always a consequence for putting on ‘the game face’ and going out. It’s so frustrating struggling to breathe.
#asthma
#longcovid
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So, why now? On Friday morning, I had collected him from his respite stay and he was happy, excited to see me and to be coming home. I had absolutely no suspicion of what was to come or how bad it would be.
#SENDCrisis
#SENDAction
#Autism
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@gtomlin
@RevJaneWillis
500 years in the future, it will be one of those obscure church rituals none of us understand anymore but know are essential to our worship 🤣
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Very grateful to have seen a
#consultant
last night ahead of todays strikes. He was lovely and very attentive to my health and hoped for recovery. For the hours they put in and the knowledge they need, they’re worth their pay and the
#NHS
needs them!
#ConsultantStrike
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Nearly got sent back to hospital again this afternoon! Covid
@Home
Dr rang just as my breathing was crashing…I’m covid negative now but the asthma spiral will take a while to resolve. Sigh
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I have just discovered not just one but two cats INSIDE the sofa. As in they scratched a hole in the lining and climbed in to make a nest. It was like doing a sofa c-section. Head out first, then ease the body…. 🤦♀️🙄
#kittensoftwitter
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With thanks to all of the
#clergyshielders
who collaborated on this letter, some who felt able to sign and others who didn't, and to
@ChurchTimes
for their article on this issue.
@churchofengland
Here is the full text:
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That’s because I was following government advice and shielding, staying home to protect my family, my neighbours and the NHS.
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I dislike these days every year because my son will never sit GCSEs or anything academic because of medical negligence at birth that left him with multiple complex disabilities. It’s tough to watch others celebrate these things even though I don’t begrudge their happiness.
Dreading tomorrow - parents that show off about their kids getting a string of 8s and 9s on social media will not help. I just want my daughter to get to 6th form. She is not well currently and is on a long waiting list for NHS help. Be proud but consider how you express that.
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Adam said to me, “k k k k k k k kiss!!” So I kissed him repeatedly. He’s now giggling uncontrollably. That’s what mothering is all about. 😘🥰
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@wheatbeltqueen
Thank you and yes, this school and it’s staff are amazing. They are utterly devoted to the young people in their care.
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2) This is one of the many unseen aspects of raising a child with a disability (or multiple disabilities in Adam's case.) It's not just the day to day caring part, it's the paperwork, the arguing with local authorities, the legal aspect, the DLA applications and appeals...
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Cried buckets watching the funeral today, particularly watching Her Majesty sitting alone. I remember doing that and it’s intensely isolating. My heart goes out to her, not as Monarch but as bereaved wife.
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@CoRMirfield
I will pray for the whole group and particularly the woman with beautiful purple/red hair. I was ordained with tri-colour rainbow hair and while reactions were mixed, many people found it to be a talking point that made me more accessible.
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My beautiful boy was full of smiles today and even asked me for a picture saying, “Picture mummy! Cheeeeeeessee!!!” Bless his innocent heart 🥰
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It’s today! It’s today! It’s today! Because I’d recovery from surgery, I haven’t seen my beautiful son in five endlessly long weeks. But today, there will be hugs….and tears…and more hugs.
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And no, I’m not “a woman priest” or “a lady priest” or a “priestess” or a “lady vicar” or a “woman vicar” - I’m just a priest and a vicar and a chaplain. One who sometimes gets it right, often gets it wrong, but isn’t now and never should be defined by my gender.
#JustAPriest25
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@AngelaTilby
Women being sexually assaulted and raped while the perpetrator is allowed to get away with seemingly anything by virtue of his fame is not trivial. This is a repeating theme on recent years, famous men walking free, leaving women’s lives destroyed in their wake.
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4) It's the unseen toll of being not just parent but carer and legal advocate as well. Open a vein and you'll find coffee.
#SENparent
#autism
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Adam has no idea today is Mothering Sunday because he doesn't have the intellectual capacity, and as he isn't in school right now, there is no one to remind him or help him make a card; since his dad has died, he doesn't have that assistance either...
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Virtual reality worship: What carols at home looks like this Christmas
@LeedsCofE
#onlineworship
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@SendUnsend
@ScottCJonesy
Of course it’s an ugly tweet. Sadly some people choose to do that on Twitter, behind the protection of a screen without either knowing or facing the person concerned. Thankfully, I’m not remotely bothered by his opinion of me and happy to entirely dismiss it!
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Yes indeed, the birthday boy is Quite Calm today….can’t you tells?
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