Happenings at church this morning

There was simnel cake, because it's Mothering Sunday.

I sang in the choir for the first time.

The bishop turned up to confirm some people. He talked to the children for around twenty minutes, and THEN said "Now I'm going to speak to the grown-ups", and preached another full-length sermon. So church ran very late today.

I got talking to the father of one of the confirmands, who didn't usually come to our church, and he introduced the rest of his family. One of them was a girl of about nineteen wearing an IWW pin. "Oh," I said, "you're a Wobbly." "What's that?" asked the father. So the girl and I spent several minutes explaining industrial unionism to him.

A little girl of about ten was reading "Not Ordinarily Borrowable". "It's the best book I ever read," she explained solemnly, so I signed it for her.

One of the other choir members turned out to be a children's librarian, and wants a copy as well.