Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 2hAs I get older I'm far more sympathetic to how awful Mrs Bennett and Mr Collins are (and to a certain extent the three younger girls), and far less sympathetic to how terrible a father Mr Bennett is. 000
Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 27/09/2026“Emperor Palpatine is dead.” “No no no, he’s just resting.” “He’s not resting, he’s dead. He’s an ex-emperor” “He’s just pining for the fjord-system” Etc… 050
Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 26/09/2026Went 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 020
Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 25/09/2026I look forward to the social media crossover of “is English an ethnicity” posts with “that’s not what Lewis would have wanted” posts. 000
Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 25/09/2026Lucy gives Mr Tumnus Covid. Turning him to stone is a heavy handed metaphor for government restrictions on freedom. Aslan is on the move (and violating the stay at home protocols) 110
Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 25/09/2026I think I’m saying evacuated children make a good opportunity to tell the story he wants to tell. I don’t think that story has a WWII subtext. (Off the top of my head, that’s the only reference to the war in the rest of the books). 100
Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 25/09/2026I would place money on Lewis being surprised that people think there is a WWII subtext to the events in Narnia. He wanted to tell a story and the format that story worked best in was a fairytale. 101
Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 25/09/2026There is no evacuee plot line? It’s just a mechanism to get the kids away from their parents and to the professor’s house. It’s a plot comma, or a best plot semi-colon, not a line. 110
Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 23/09/2026Prize giving for my son yesterday and we had Chris Kamara. It was great! Slightly rambling story of his life, but his jist was try hard, fight racism, and don’t take yourself to seriously. That’s not terrible. 130
Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 22/09/2026My head canon is Susan in later life returns to faith and Narnia. But that’s not a very exciting story. 110
Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 22/09/2026This character can’t be Peter (High King), Edmund (Repentant sinner) and Lucy (GOAT), and doesn’t work in the narrative to be Eustace or Pole. So it falls to Susan. 120
Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 22/09/2026Also, I think Lewis wants a character to represent the person who leaves the childhood faith because “they mature out of it”. Elsewhere in his theology he points out that leaving faith as you grow up is a faux-maturity and childish faith is wise. 120
Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 19/09/2026Me 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 010
Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 18/09/20261) I really like that they've made Charn look like a 1960's sci-fi set. (adapt the Space trilogy already you cowards) 2) What? 030
Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 15/09/2026Isn’t this evident in personal lives already. Then: I kept all of the letters your grandfather wrote to me when we were courting. Now: let me explain to you what MSN messenger was. 010
Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 11/09/2026But realistically, I have no clue what the other site is mad about, apart from I guess everything. 000
Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 11/09/2026It’s because he’s not in cassock, surplice, and preaching scarf, there are candles on the communion table, and the wedding rings imply that marriage is a sacrament! #SemperReformanda #TheBishopOfRomeHathNoJurisdiction. 231
Reposted by Mark WalleyBarry Hill @bishopbarry.bsky.social · 09/09/2026A few thoughts on recent events in #Middlesbrough @churchofengland.org www.churchofengland.org/media/storie...churchofengland.orgInvesting in Hope - Bishop Barry reflects on events in Middlesbrough | The Church of EnglandBishop Barry offers a reflection on events in Middlesbrough 172
Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 07/09/2026Slight counterpoint to myself though, whenever someone says “oh Nanna had very specific plans she wanted” my heart misses a beat or two. 90% of the times that’s brilliant. 10% are “I’m not sure that’s a good idea”. I’ve yet to have the “I don’t think that’s actually possible” but it will happen. 120
Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 07/09/2026As a vicar, I love it when people say “can I talk to you about my funeral?” Do it while you can make informed decisions, then write that down and tell your family! 120
Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 03/09/2026We never got a visit from Starmer despite him door knocking on our street during his first election campaign. Assumed because no-one could work out how our intercom system worked, or, if they survived that, how the numbers in the lift correlated to the actual floors. 000
Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 03/09/2026I lived in the constituency for almost 15 years and have plenty of friends and colleagues still in the area, and can confirm a total of zero of them are on Bluesky. 000
Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 02/09/2026"Hi, we're just here from the Labour party and wondering if you were aware of the upcoming by-election and wondering if you had any thoughts about who you might vote for?" 000
Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 30/08/2026Me, 20 minutes pleasant drive from 'lawless’ Middlesbrough. 000
Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 29/08/2026I 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... 052
Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 28/08/2026One of the advantages film and tv have over comics is that they have an end. Batman can quit, Peter Parker can live happily ever after, mutants can be welcomed into society. I mean *looks around at the x-men franchise* theoretically this is true. 010
Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 24/08/2026I think they should make a yearly tradition of announcing Nicholas Hoult as playing this season’s Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, then a week later announcing his replacement. It would be very in keeping with the position. 2130
Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 22/08/2026Also a stick of butter is not the same as our 250g blocks of butter. (Learnt this the hard way) 240
Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 21/08/2026Delighted this is awarded the Stephen Bush “to me…” image. Hard not to want this to be really good and do really well given all the background. 020
Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 18/08/2026Photo taken just moments after Materazzi denied the divinity of the Son. (I know, wrong church father, wrong century, wrong doctrinal conflict, etc…) 040
Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 16/08/2026Facebook, I have literally never wanted to do this, and only ever clicked "continue" by accident. 010
Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 11/08/2026I hate every fantastic beast I see. From Basalisk to Kelpie No, you'll never make a house-elf out of me 030
Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 10/08/2026The Book of Common Prayer (1662) consistently uses baptize not baptise. The 1559 version uses baptise. 020
Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 09/08/2026Of the first big arc, Moon Over Soho is my least favourite. It’s still good, which says something about how good the rest of them are. 120
Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 07/08/2026Thoughts on this. 1) very low ratio of shirts to attendee. Too middle class? Or just cold and rainy and everyone wearing coats. 2) significant lack of glory hunting, here are people who understand the gospel 3) what’s the deal with Leeds? 010
Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 07/08/2026Keswick Convention Football Shirt Count (week 3): Leeds: 5 Tottenham: 3 Arsenal: 3 (including the lovely black and green away kit) Ipswich: 2 (one the Sheeran Barca coloured shirt) Other single digits: Liverpool, Boro, Man City, Wolves, AVFC (nice Europa League white and blue one) 120
Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 30/07/2026www.uefa.com/news-media/n... “No one has the moral authority to sell what they merely hold in trust for the next generation.” Absolutely love this. Immediate and clear action, elegantly and passionately expressed.uefa.comStatement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 national associationsUEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions. 010
Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 28/07/2026To be honest, we don't know what James and John's dad looked like. 1150
Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 26/07/2026If he really loved acting then he wouldn't take a secure job earning stupid money to star in a role that would have blown his mind as a child and which will also allow him to do any passion projects he want. 051
Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 22/07/2026Due to the Online Safety Act (2023) I am not going to make comparisons between Starmer and Paul Walker 030
Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 22/07/2026Surely the Number 10 door is Vin Diesel's character? A large wooden character with a very limited range that is best used as a foil to the other more interesting characters, but somehow is the most recognisable character in the franchise. 120
Reposted by Mark WalleyStephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 19/07/2026KNIGHTHOOD FOR ROONEY 229443
Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 15/07/2026Isn’t it great that England are now holders of the Euro 2020 silver medal? 020
Reposted by Mark Walleymaura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 14/07/2026I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday. 115111522404
Mark Walley @iamsparticus.com · 14/07/2026I’ve been workshopping Bastille Day jokes for the most of the match and it’s that or “Not the first time a French defence has collapsed on the 14th July” 000
