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Andrew Dotchin (tssf) he/him
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Born UK 🇬🇧 Baptised Malta 🇲🇹 Ordained South Africa 🇿🇦 Home in Suffolk. Vicar, Franciscan, General Synod Sweetie 🍬🧚‍♀️ Fairy, Chaplain to anything with a badge
🏳️‍🌈Love💝Wins🏳️‍⚧️
Ho, Ho, Ho yes 🎄
Discourse commence. 📕
November 28, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Tonight’s (this morning’s…) prayers are a real hodge podge of beads and emotions but perhaps just what was needed to make sense of this beautiful vocation together and call me ever forward.
Further up and further in!
Laus Deo!
November 28, 2025 at 1:14 AM
#LastLaugh

What do you call a detective who solves cases by chance?

Sheer Luck Holmes…..
November 27, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Good news everyone!
The first empty sweetie tubs of Christmas have arrived at Kesgrave Vicarage
Please leave any you have on or in our delivery box and we will see that they are recycled to help fund the excellent work of #Streetvet
Find out more
www.streetvet.co.uk
and
youtu.be/9h_FhJO3xHk?...
November 27, 2025 at 8:50 PM
My first Christmas card comes from someone who enjoys my posts on here and #Facebook
They also said nice things about #PauseForThought which is every weekday on @suffolksound.bsky.social just after the 7.30am news.
Sorry folks it looks like your stuck with #LastLaugh & #ToPonder for a while yet 😉😁
November 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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For #teachers preparing lessons on Advent and Christmas, our free online learning resources include image banks and guides for primary and secondary students.

Explore the collection at: www.westminster-abbey.org/learning/teaching-resources/catalogue?typ=keyword&tag=Christian%20festivals
November 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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What do you get when you mix the best selling single of the king of pop with the lately departed queen of MAGA?

This is what we get: a parody of Billie Jean about #mtg #maga #marjorietaylorgreene 🎶🕺

youtu.be/Xr0_HN9KNCs
"MTG Has Broken Cover" - Marsh Family parody of "Billie Jean" by MJ about Marjorie Taylor Greene
YouTube video by Marsh Family
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Lincoln diocesan synod has called on the House of Bishops to “proceed at pace” to implement stand-alone blessing services for #samesex couples.

On the same day, the Bishop of Chelmsford said that she was “dismayed and disappointed” by recent decisions of the #HouseofBishops
Move faster with same-sex blessings, House of Bishops told
Lincoln diocesan synod urges Bishops to ‘proceed at pace’, while Bishop of Chelmsford says that ‘LGBT+ people have been failed’ by recent decisions
www.churchtimes.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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The public also thinks asylum makes up a much larger share of UK immigration than it does. The average estimate is 33%, while the real figure is about 14%, with far more people arriving for work and study.
November 27, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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New net migration figures at 930am.

Net migration fell half a million to 344,000 in 2024 from 848k in 2023

56% of people think it went up last year
17% think stayed the same
14% think it went down

2025 figure to be lower again
16% expect that
38% think it will be up
31% about the same
November 27, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Gonna need to go and buy me an album 💿 💝
I've written some pretty heavy policy stuff recently, so it was a real treat to get to indulge in this @theosthinktank.bsky.social piece about female mystics, complicated women and the beauty of Rosalía's new album 'Lux'.
Spirituality and song: What Rosalía’s ‘Lux’ says about sainthood
Hannah Rich unpacks the religious imagery and themes in ‘Lux’ – the new album by Rosalía. 25/11/2025
www.theosthinktank.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 12:51 PM
#txt4today✝️

Whoever welcomes you welcomes me. and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me
(Matthew 10v40)

For a list of people to find a welcome from check Matthew 25v35...
November 27, 2025 at 8:50 AM
#ToPray✝️

Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued.

(Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
November 27, 2025 at 8:32 AM
#ToPonder

It all comes to this:
The simplest way to be happy is to do good.

(Helen Keller)
November 27, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Nus Ghani MP - the Deputy Speaker - moved to the UK as a small child. She has been elected by the voters in Wealden in 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2024

More outright racism from the regular GB News & Talk TV contributor Lucy White - who previously called (on GB News) for all Muslims to leave Britain
November 26, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Tonight’s offering 📿
November 26, 2025 at 11:51 PM
#LastLaugh

Why Ironman and not Fe-male?
November 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Just started watching ‘Spooks’ from the very beginning.
Series 1 Episode 2 (20 May 2002) could be re-broadcast today without any editing at all 😔

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Spooks - Series 1: Episode 2
Race riots are becoming a national problem; MI5 are sure that businessman Robert Osbourne is responsible.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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"The Church of England has long called for this change, and we believe in the equal and unsurpassable worth of every child."

The Bishop of Leicester responds to the end of the two-child benefit cap announced in the Budget this afternoon.
November 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Quick reminder that our keynote talk with Professor @helenking.bsky.social is happening this Friday, 28th of November at 1:30 pm in the Learning Centre (Room 00.018) at the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. No tickets are needed, everyone is welcome! Refreshments will be provided 😊
November 26, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Need an after High School sugar rush?
Free Haribo to any students walking, cycling or even running past Kesgrave Church Hall today.
Pop in to the Broom Tree Cafe in the hall for more goodies and space to chill before going home.
Every Wednesday in term-time from 3.15pm to 4.30pm
November 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
#ToPray✝️

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.

(Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
November 26, 2025 at 9:37 AM
#ToPonder

Never bend your head,
hold it high,
look the world straight in the eye.

(Helen Keller)
November 26, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Our annual Festival at St Paul's Cathedral is the oldest #choral music event of its kind in the world. 🎵

It's free to attend and open to all, as we celebrate and give thanks for clergy and their families.

If Santa gifts you a new diary this Christmas, make sure it's the first thing you add to it!
November 26, 2025 at 8:01 AM