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Mark Walley

@iamsparticus.com
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Vicar, Middlesbrough

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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 26/09/2026
Went into town to explore the Middlesbrough Arts Week & Turner Prize stuff. Great fun and entirely free. Didn’t get to see the Turner Prize as completely booked out though. #UTB
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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 19/09/2026
Me when discussing film adaptions of classic novels: “of course directors should adapt them to a different medium, it’s a good thing” Me when I see any new information about The Magician’s Nephew
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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 30/08/2026
Me, 20 minutes pleasant drive from 'lawless’ Middlesbrough.
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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 29/08/2026
I wrote something about living and ministering in Middlesbrough and posted it on Facebook, but because you shouldn't need to have Facebook to read somethings, I've posted it on the internet too. It's short. There are photos. iamsparticus.com/boro-post-cr...
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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 28/08/2026
Up the boro.
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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 16/08/2026
Facebook, I have literally never wanted to do this, and only ever clicked "continue" by accident.
A screenshot of the dialogue box that pops up when you write something on Facebook and Facebook goes "oh should this be an event".
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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 04/07/2026
Don’t know if they’re turning up in Sandsend though?
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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 23/06/2026
Also with @selvaratnam.bsky.social and @sthildplanting.org
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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 23/06/2026
Great to be at Multiply North with various colleagues from across @dioceseofyork.bsky.social (and wider) including Bishop Eleanor.
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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 10/06/2026
I’m a big fan of football clubs having a terrible home kit every decade or so, just to make everyone appreciate their other home kits. Anyway, this is the new Newcastle kit
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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 03/06/2026
Islington Cemetery looking out west towards High Road? Not totally convinced but housing stock on high Road very similar.
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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 23/05/2026
I spent a lot of it wondering if I was supposed to know who the other bounty hunter was. We went this Ashoka duel in Season 2, to whatever incoherent mess the bounty hunter duel was in this film.
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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 16/05/2026
We’re ready
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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 19/04/2026
OutKast in shambles.
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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 17/04/2026
Hong Kong I love you, but “room-temperature water” is too far.
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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 17/04/2026
It’s been coming. Uzbekistan have had ½ dozen shots(?) at goal(?) in the last 5 minutes, and eventually one gets through the Luxembourg keeper(?)’s mitts(?). (I don’t know how hockey works)
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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 14/04/2026
New game, dance move or Chinese condiment.
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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 07/04/2026
Look, I know that Teesside Airport does not represent best value for the tax payers money and the people of Teesside, but I do enjoy flying from it.
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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 01/04/2026
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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 18/03/2026
My great photography skills have captured BBC Radio 1’s Greg James just as he’s about to cycle up the very big hill towards claybank.
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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 19/02/2026
Things I will never learn: which one of these menus leads to "download this file" the thing that most people want with PowerPoint's online version.
The File menu from Powerpoint's Online version. It has a bunch of different options, of which only "print' and "rename" are obvious.
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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 17/02/2026
My printer, in its long lingering dying, has somehow printed the ten commandments sarcastically.
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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 17/02/2026
Happy Chinese New Pancake Day. You’ll be pleased to know that you can make buttermilk pancakes with sour cream, if you just use a bit of milk to water down (milk down?) the batter.
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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 31/01/2026
I’d be lying if I said this wasn’t the reason I insisted we got gas hobs in the vicarage.
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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 04/01/2026
Happy sweep the car park of snow Sunday to all who celebrate
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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 22/12/2025
Ask not how we got some LNER Christmas bunting.
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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 22/12/2025
I love how they ordered what you’d assume if you only knew their names. Of course the guy called Tom ordered a chicken tikka.
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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 18/12/2025
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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 30/11/2025
My favourite theological work of advent so far.
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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 21/11/2025
Think my dahlia’s may be done for the year
Frost covered dahlias
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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 13/11/2025
Got a spare hour to kill before you train from Newcastle Central Station? Why not read through Barth’s Dogmatics at the Lit&Phil just round the corner?
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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 08/11/2025
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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 01/11/2025
Wikipedia is obviously great, but its rare dry sense of humour is under-rated.
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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 21/10/2025
Half an hour drive, an hour of walking and the only company pheasants, cows, and an increasingly muddy Labrador.
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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 21/10/2025
Had a couple of hours between the school run and first job of the day so took the dog up on the moors.
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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 26/09/2025
Bit of a walk.
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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 10/09/2025
Despair
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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 05/09/2025
I know the new Boro striker just scored a phenomenal goal against Germany, but can he do it on a cold February… etc…
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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 05/09/2025
Lately, the Lego Friends sets have had the most enjoyable builds. Compare for example, these £40 sets, Ahsoka's star fighter (300 pieces) and Vintage Fashion shop (400 pieces)
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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 15/08/2025
The French have a superior approach to food. Also the French:
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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 02/08/2025
Courgette turtle was robbed
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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 30/07/2025
41 years on this earth and this is the weirdest printer error I’ve ever encountered. If I print a particular pdf file, every “fi” in the text has the “i” overprinted on the “f”. Any other f or i prints fine.
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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 27/07/2025
Belated “Happy East Coast Mainline signal failure day” to all who celebrate
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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 07/07/2025
You may not believe it, but this is peak bbqing technique.
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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 01/07/2025
Got to cover two churches on Sunday. I am reliably informed that this stonework on one of them is a dragon eating a cow. More churches could do with this kind of thing.
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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 12/06/2025
Lowkey an actually brilliant award. Great bridge too. Much deserved.
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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 10/06/2025
1) The Daily Mash writes a joke article about scouts. (www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society...) 2) Facebook’s AI automatically slanders the whole scouting movement. 3) ? 4) profit
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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 25/04/2025
Jellycat x Greggs Fenwicks pop up when?
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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 25/03/2025
“You think this is cool, just wait till you see who my great great great… grandson slays”
A stained glass window of David, holding the bloodied head of Goliath in his hand, standing on Goliath’s corpse.
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Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 02/03/2025
I hope you all celebrate your baptism anniversaries with lego box car racers.
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