tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post3724256495274127672..comments2024-03-27T11:23:43.902+00:00Comments on Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley: On Meeting a ClergyWodeWosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18381754587879658356noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-51942193761799433502012-08-20T19:26:40.195+01:002012-08-20T19:26:40.195+01:00UKViewer, do you every worry that your life is mor...UKViewer, do you every worry that your life is more surreal than mine - and I'm imaginary?Archdruid Eileenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11849759985107161674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-39336504113885893292012-08-20T00:10:09.204+01:002012-08-20T00:10:09.204+01:00That was most informative.
It would have avoided ...That was most informative.<br /><br />It would have avoided a friend, a lawyer who had drink taken, adressing the visiting vicar as My Lord in a fit of absent mindedness and then getting into a one sided drunken quarrel about why The Lord wasn't his Lord...<br /><br />If only he had observed the paisley shirt...<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />the fly in the webhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04563871975125538755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-64020779536536477632012-08-19T18:35:08.926+01:002012-08-19T18:35:08.926+01:00Well, if they followed the procedures from my chil...Well, if they followed the procedures from my childhood, they'd simply call them all 'Reverend' (or possibly 'Reverend Lastname" and you don't need to know their gender. Unfortunately, now they all seem to go by their first names instead and some first names are used by all genders.<br /><br />I did once hear someone addressing a bishop who had dropped in as 'Your Grace' which surely hasn't been in common use around here since my grandmother's day. Certainly he (the bishop) seemed a little taken aback and hastened to assure the lady that such formality was not required.<br /><br />Cherylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17343576593315811633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4795284845836270713.post-13902323139167321502012-08-19T18:14:05.979+01:002012-08-19T18:14:05.979+01:00I've often wondered why male clergy wear frock...I've often wondered why male clergy wear frocks in church, now I know!!<br /><br />But, the comment about Paisley shirts for female clergy is misleading - because I've met Male Clergy (who are confused about their gender) wearing them, what was more difficult to overcome was the bottom hugging leather skirt he was wearing at the time, along with bicycle clips and a trilby?<br /><br />For a moment I thought that I was back in that Club in Hamburg, but realised that as I was at a diocesan conference, it was OK for the Bishop to be dressed that way, no one else was even phased by it all.<br />UKViewerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18114944341930758335noreply@blogger.com