Wow, what a weekend. We've done both London and Derby's ordinations yesterday and today (photos in the gallery). Was amazing to see Jo, Liz, Simon, Mike P and Sarah S undergo the ontological change.

The London ordination clashed with the match. I was listening to it on fivelive. Still haven't seen any of the game and I suspect I'm now at the stage where I'm unlikely to see anything like extended highlights. Anyway, seemed to me that once England went down to ten men they were in the ascendancy. Sounded like Gerrard started playing in a role more like that he plays at Liverpool and became the driving force. Someone needs to have a serious talking to Rooney though.

Anyway, the interesting thing was that the winning penalty coincided exactly with the dismissal from the Bishop of London. Afterwards we went to Jo's post-ordination party, along with Pete Broadbent, among others.

Today was the ordination of Liz and Simon to minister at St. Alkmund's, Derby. A much smaller-scale affair followed by a lovely buffet lunch at the church.

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