Two more final meetings

Had two meetings scheduled for the same time last night. As they were two final meetings, felt obliged to go to both to say farewell and thank you. No, didn’t cut myself in half (have you ever cogitated on that saying of Jesus, “If your eye offends you pluck it out” etc? I haven’t seen all that many one-eyed Christians walking around..) but spent the first hour at one then onto the next one.

The first was my last ever school governors’ meeting. I’ve been a school governor since 1979. Different schools, but it’s long enough for anyone. The changes in that time are unbelievable (education is such a selling point for politicians. They can’t help themselves tinkering with it. Not that the students appear to learn any more, but at least the politicians feel they’re doing something. Keeps them happy.) The governing body presented me with a huge bouquet of flowers, so large I could hardly get it into the boot of my car. Yes, O.K. I know it’s a small car. But still. I spent a happy half hour arranging the flowers in three vases this morning, which is something of a first for me as I’m generally a shove-it-in-a-jampot kind of person.

The second meeting was a final PCC for one of the six parishes. Only five more to go. Still, this has been a good PCC (Parochial Church Council – the running body of the churches in the Church of England. Well, not running exactly. More strolling or staggering, if the truth be known) and it was a great opportunity for me to say thank you, which of course, they reciprocated.

No fetes, weddings or baptisms this weekend, so I’m going to take some time off.

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