Last of the Summer Wine Myers Briggs

After much analysis of the entrails of Google Analytics, Young Keith tells me that the title of this post was in fact the collection of words used as search terms to find this blog.

Normally I would deride the poor deluded soul who thought they'd find anything useful with this particular set of terms. But you know, it set me wondering...

Norman Clegg - ISTJ
Norman is set in routine and fearful of change. A deep thinker and analyzer of others' motives, he is rarely found wearing less than twelve layers of clothing.


Compo Simmonite - ESFP
A child of nature, Compo is always looking for opportunities. Normally opportunities of engaging in a wrestle with Nora Batty. He has no problem being the centre of attention.


Cpl Signwriter Walter (Foggy)  Dewhurst ENTJ
As one might imagine, Foggy is constantly trying to improve. He values rigid planning and attention to detail. None of which, not even an allegedly successful military career, prevents him being hopeless.
Oddly enough, Seymour Utterthwaite and Cyril Blaymire have remarkably similar Myers Briggs types.


Nora Batty ISFJ

Nora knows how to put every moment of her time to good use. That good use normally being the laundry, sweeping the steps or black-leading the pigeons. She is not a great dreamer, preferring on the whole to use the mangle. She does not find it hard to speak loudly. But she can occasionally express her extrovert side with a yard-brush.


Wesley Pegden ISFJ
You might not think that Wesley and Nora have similar Myers-Briggs attributes. But just consider - they both prefer to get on with their own lives and their own activities, they both resent their tasks being interfered with by others, and they both go off alarming when they are challenged or their judgement is questioned. Once you've seen it, it's obvious.

A Religious Fellowship Leaders’ Personality Test

It's important to know, when considering new jobs or the vital balance of personalities in a community, where exactly you fit.  Eschewing the other 73 methods of working out what makes you "tick" that people have already developed, I'd like to share the one I use when considering appointments to Druidic positions.

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1. You have a hard decision to make. Do you

A. Pray long and hard about it, and consider what the Bible has to say?

B. Make a snap judgement. It’ll all end in disaster anyhow.

C. Ask the PCC/Church Meeting/Moot to form a sub-committee, on the grounds that it’s going to be a couple of years before you really need to come off the fence.

D. Watch QI instead.

2. Which Social Networking Media do you use when not doing your “day job”?

A. Blogger – you like to be able to express your thoughts in detail

B. Twitter – you like the cut-and-thrust and succinctness of the thoughts.

C. Facebook – you like to keep in touch with old friends

D. Day job? I have a day job?


3. When you are chairing a committee you like to:

A. Tell them all what you’ve decided and jump straight to the nem con vote.

B. Keep everything to the point. Get the business done and get off early. Life’s too short for wittering.

C. Listen to everybody’s point of view. It’s important they all feel valued.

D. Send your last-minute apologies because you’ve arranged to do a baptism visit at the same time.


4. Who chooses the songs/hymns in your fellowship?

A. You do. You have a vision for where you want the music to go over the next 5years.

B. The Church Wardens/Stewards/Executive Arch-Assistant Druid. But nobody really knows why.

C. The Organist/Worship Leader. It’s important to encourage people to express their own gifts.

D. The Organist/Worship Leader. They get really shirty if you upset them.

The Results

Mostly A –The Prophet. You have the vision, the enthusiasm, and the profound conviction that you’re always right. A true Leader, but it’s always worth looking over your shoulder occasionally to see if anyone’s following. You like to spend your holidays invading Poland.

Mostly B – The Pragmatist. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. In fact, if it’s only a little bit broke it’s probably better off left alone. Acutely aware of the value of time, you’re at your best pruning pointless activities from the religious calendar. But you were at your worst when you fitted that conveyor belt to speed up multiple baptisms.

Mostly C – The People Person. It is important to give people your attention. They have to feel wanted. Conflicts must be resolved. Pastoral visiting is an essential part of your ministry. You work a 100 hour week.

Mostly D – The Escapist. Probably an INFP or INTP on the Myers-Briggs scale, you were called to Ministry by your deep love for people. Unfortunately it turns out that people can be hurtful, rude, unthinking and unappreciative of the love you have for them. Dodging meetings and spending time in cyber-space will help you to choke down those troubling thoughts you have about decking the Circuit Steward.

This Artistic, Gentle ISFP Blog

I have a big thank you to Scatter Cushions for the typealyzer link to the blog's Myers-Briggs analysis.
Feeding in the URL of this site, I was unsurprised to find that we are "The gentle and compassionate type. They are especially attuned their inner values and what other people need."


Or perhaps all blogs are written by ISFPs?

Myers Briggs

As the community will be aware, I've been becoming increasingly concerned about the lack of progress in raising the new Moot Hall (the old one having burnt down after the Night of a Thousand Tea Lights alt.worship disaster. Hence I took the liberty to have you all tested for your personality types this afternoon at the Myers Briggs workshop.

Much in line with my expectations, it turns out that, to a Beaker Person, you're all INFP. So this explains why so little construction has taken place. You've all been wandering about considering how you relate to the task 0f building a Moot Hall - wondering what it must feel like to actually be a length of willow - trying to understand you place in the sheer mootiness of it all - while a great pile of badly-whittled sticks has lain around on the grass where a Moot Hall should be appearing.

Well, winter's going to be here soon and I'm sick to death of having to host a bunch of hippy new-age wannabes in my Dining Room for want of a better "space"(or "room" as we used to call them...) So I'm taking some drastic action.

To encourage a few I's to turn into E's, I'm introducing compulsory Karaoke. The landlord of the White Horse was not encouraging when I suggested we should hold it there every night, so instead it will take place in the Apple Shed. Yes I know it's full of apples, but you should all have thought of that before you started skipping around thinking the stars are God's daisy chain and that shooting stars are dying fairies.

And to get some Judging and Thinking behaviour going on around here, I'm introducing a daily mental maths exercise instead of the Pouring out of Beakers ceremony. And a rock-breaking time instead of Filling Up of Beakers (because if we're scrapping Pouring out of Beakers, let's face it, Filling up of Beakers is going to get a bit messy).

So enough with the rich inner lives already. We're gonna whip some druids into line here and get the Moot House built