{"id":1517,"date":"2010-03-25T12:24:33","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T11:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2010-03-25T12:25:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T11:25:48","slug":"new-prospects-opening-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=1517","title":{"rendered":"New prospects opening up?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The weekend bride's parents, Paul and Maryta, outside the church.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Still thinking about the great time we had at Portsmouth, which may be why I lost at chess again on Monday \u2013 or I may just be losing it completely. Despite this, new prospects may be opening up: on Tuesday Anne Coomes arrived, and we spent most of her visit discussing the possibility of my doing training sessions across the country for diocesan communications officers.<\/p>\n

Anne, as well as being the ex-wife of my good friend David, is in charge of Parish Pump<\/a>, a web-based organisation which supplies material and assistance to editors of church magazines, and which has grown remarkably in recent years. The idea would be that I would do sessions based on my UEA lectures but adapted to suit the audience. We hope to give a trial to a specially selected group in Norwich, but of course that does depend on the diocese agreeing and supplying a venue. I would be concentrating on the quality of writing, but there are additional possibilities. I was thinking of deregistering myself as self-employed because of my lack of earning in the last two years, but I may now change my mind. We’ll see.<\/p>\n

Anne went off to Northamptonshire yesterday morning, after I registered her on Facebook. I guided her to Cringleford and then did a bit of walking. I had the idea of walking home, but found myself looking round the burial ground at Eaton, which I stumbled upon, and then found it was \u2013 amazingly \u2013 too warm to walk very far, especially as I had woken very early and written a new piece for my website. So I caught a bus on Newmarket Road (I had probably walked a couple of miles anyway), which took me home, where Dot was working hard on her pre-inspection briefing: she’s doing an inspection at Hickling on Maundy Thursday.<\/p>\n

Later she walked up to Rymans to buy some paper for the printer and purchased 5 for 4 because it seemed a good deal. The trouble was, it was a very heavy deal, and she struggled down Prince of Wales Road, stopping every few paces. I had gone to meet her, but for reasons which need not detain us thought she had gone to Morrisons, which is in the opposite direction. When I contacted her by phone from Morrisons, she was about a third of the way down the hill, and I eventually reached her roughly halfway down, where she had ground to a halt. By the time we got home we were both pretty exhausted, but she still had to go to Gillingham, where she is a governor, for a 6pm meeting. I watched Spurs beat Fulham 3-1 in an FA Cup quarter final instead, which was slightly more restful, though Spurs were pretty awful in the first half (HT 0-1).<\/p>\n

Today she has gone to Kessingland for a DSSO visit, followed by lunch with Anne, and this evening we’re at the Theatre Royal for an Alan Bennett play, Enjoy<\/em>, starring Alison Steadman, one of my favourite actresses. Then off to Coventry with Phil tomorrow for a meeting with Andrew’s social worker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Still thinking about the great time we had at Portsmouth, which may be why I lost at chess again on Monday \u2013 or I may just be losing it completely. Despite this, new prospects may be opening up: on Tuesday Anne Coomes arrived, and we spent most of her visit discussing the possibility of my … Continue reading New prospects opening up?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1491,1490],"class_list":["post-1517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anne-coomes","tag-parish-pump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1521,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions\/1521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}