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Dr Julie Gittoes @juliegittoes.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Congratulations on being in the Booker long list, Luke: have enjoyed your other work so hopefully this will make it into my holiday reading list!

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Dr Julie Gittoes @juliegittoes.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

And yes, posted minutes after 1st had passed - full day!

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Graham Kings @grahamkings.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

A joy to speak @beerandtheology.bsky.social, 27 Feb 2026, at The Angel pub, Rotherhithe, for our 10th anniversary, on ‘Helen #Waddell and #Heloise: Resonances and Relations’. 3 members @selwyn1882.bsky.social : Simon Hughes (1970), @grahamkings.bsky.social (1979), @juliegittoes.bsky.social (1999).

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Graham Kings @grahamkings.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Also with the three friends who organise @beerandtheology since I moved to #Cambridge from #Bermondsey in 2020: Guido de Graaff, Deborah Halling and @juliegittoes.bsky.social .

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Dr Julie Gittoes @juliegittoes.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

They’re typical siblings: they’ll cwtch & groom each other, but also make it clear when they want their own space; they’ll play and zoom, until one or other gets fed up! They’re good girls!

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Dr Julie Gittoes @juliegittoes.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

My solution to the tree issue was to have a mini one on the mantle piece - but there’s been a plenty of playfulness/pouncing (then they choose when the need their own space, and when to snuggle).

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Dr Julie Gittoes @juliegittoes.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Glad to see they’ve both settled with each other - and with you! Mine have been mainly snoozing and cwtching

Two cats curled up side by side: both white and one with black markings the other grey.

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Dr Julie Gittoes @juliegittoes.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

My #adventcandle today: the light burning above the crib scene - the light shines in rhe darkness and rhe darkness does not overcome it #christmas

The final section of an advent candle - with a wine bottle used as a candle holder: the wick burns just about the image of the crib with Mary, Joseph and the Christ child

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Dr Julie Gittoes @juliegittoes.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Christmas in Hendon: worship - from care home carols to crib service, midnight mass to Christmas Day - followed by post-church-post-pub walk #ChristmasDay

A close up of the wooden crib at St Mary’s- Mary and Joseph either side of the Christ child with the donkey and cow in the background

The view of St Mary’s Hendon from across the church yard - including the tower with the weather vane

A bare branched tree in sunny hill park against a blue sky

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The Church of England @churchofengland.org · 12/12/2025

Jesus Christ is always at the centre of Christmas. And everyone's invited to experience it with us. Come and celebrate Christmas at a church near you. Find services and events in your local community at AChurchNearYou.com/christmas.

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Dr Julie Gittoes @juliegittoes.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Popping on here to share (albeit belatedly) a bit of #advent #hope & #joy Our choir has produced an #adventcalendar - some classics, beautiful arrangements & pieces written by our director of music: here’s the link to the play list - enjoy and share! youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Advent Carols 2025 - YouTube

Five years ago during the Covid lockdown, when it wasn't possible for people to congregate and sing carols, the Choir of St Mary's Hendon put together an onl...

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Dr Julie Gittoes @juliegittoes.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Have raised this with a couple of folk this week - eg worried re how Christianity gets co-opted. Glad to see a statement by my Area Bishop and Director of Racial Justice. We’re also working with North London Citizens - to help build leadership capacity and listen effectively.

Statement from the Bishop of Edmonton and Dr Lisa Adjei
"We are deeply concerned to hear of the planned 'unite the kingdom' march in London this weekend. Though framed as a celebration of free speech, it is inextricably linked to voices and movements that have previously contributed to division and racial intolerance. This is at odds with everything we, and millions of Londoners, stand for, especially the Diocese of London."
"We affirm that freedom of speech is a vital democratic right, and at the same time pray for a nation where that freedom is exercised not to deepen fear or exclusion, but to foster compassion and unity. Every day, in our churches and on our streets, we see a very different city to the one that the marchers portray. One where people from all cultures, religions, beliefs and classes can work, worship, and live together. We take pride in a city that welcomes everyone. Now and always, we reject intolerance and division in the utmost terms."
"We will hold all marginalised communities in our prayers this weekend, and ask for safety, peace and justice for all."
Bishop Anderson Jeremiah, Bishop of Edmonton & Lead Bishop for Racial Justice
Dr Lisa Adjei, Head of Racial Justice Priority, Diocese of London

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Dr Julie Gittoes @juliegittoes.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

From a couple of weeks ago: entertaining angels unawares - #courage and #hospitality, #listening and #hope. With a h/t to my colleague Al in Hodge Hill - and his community engagement with protestors & asylum seekers juliegittoes.blogspot.com/2025/09/ente...

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Entertaining angels unawares

31st August, Trinity 11: Jeremiah 2:4-13, Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16 and Luke 14:1, 7-14 At Evensong, I revisited some themes in this sermon th...

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Dr Julie Gittoes @juliegittoes.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Been a bit absent here one way or another - less time on social media in general, but getting back to some #tinyjoys it’s pick your own dahlias season at Finchley Nursery: carefully wrapped and now on mantelpiece #tinyjoy #dahlias

Some freshly cut dahlias - wrapped in paper: flowers in yellow, shades of orange and red, petals overlapping as they’re held together in a wrapping.

Dahlias placed in mug - photo from above on a wooden table. The blooms are red, in the centre, surrounded by yellows, oranges and very pale pink; plus purple and light orange. The shapes and sizes of the petals vary

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Dr Julie Gittoes @juliegittoes.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Hear them regularly here too but never spotted one

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Dr Julie Gittoes @juliegittoes.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

So many meals and so many words in various homes/lives…

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Dr Julie Gittoes @juliegittoes.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

When I moved into my first vicarage, my TI gave me their kitchen table. It spent 5 years in my kitchen then became my desk on the Close & is my writing desk here! A thrown out table is my kitchen table & my dining table from people in my title parish when they updated theirs (20+ years ago!)…

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Ben Fulford @benmfulford.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Realising I have got the stage of reposting these insights out of sheer frustration that no-one in No 10 seems to be paying attention and shifting strategy.

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Dr Julie Gittoes @juliegittoes.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Used to be a treat to myself on a Sunday to buy The Observer and read it over the week - so disappointing to see this front page/repackaging of Reform.

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Dr Julie Gittoes @juliegittoes.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Yes, I did see some of the collection - pre-lockdown when I was new to North London!

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Dr Julie Gittoes @juliegittoes.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Having got as far as Kenwood, it was a beautiful day to enjoy a walk across the Heath via Parliament Hill view point (how many generations have stood there as London has changed over centuries!) before heading into Hampstead #hampsteadhealth #parliamenthill #viewpoint #london #tinyjoys

A neatly mown lawn at Kenwood with a park bench in the mid ground to the left - looking down towards a pond with a back drop of trees, shades of green

A view from Parliament Hill - looking between the trees across the city of London with St Paul’s and the Shard etc in the hazy spring sun.

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Dr Julie Gittoes @juliegittoes.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

A close up of some of the rhododendron - pinks and purples

A close up of orange petals on the individual flowers of a rhododendron against the back drop of green leaves

Another close up this time of the smaller pink petals on many individual flowers of a rhododendron

A close up of pink and white petals on the individual flowers of a rhododendron against the back drop of green leaves

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Dr Julie Gittoes @juliegittoes.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Last week, I took myself off to Kenwood House because I’d been told that the rhododendron were amazing - absolutely popping with colour #kenwoodhouse #rhododendron #colour #tinyjoys

The rhododendron at Kenwood House - several beds of plants in flower: reds, pinks and oranges. Set against the backdrop of neatly mown lawns, mature trees and blue sky

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Dr Julie Gittoes @juliegittoes.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

One of mine was on the bed, the other in a “sun puddle” on the floor!

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Dr Julie Gittoes @juliegittoes.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Obsessed with these rainbow tulips at the moment - bought them reduced price which was a bonus! #tinyjoys #tulips

A mug with pink stripes in various shades on a white shelf - containing some rainbow tulips against a red wall. The tulips are yellow, red, orange and purple.

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Dr Julie Gittoes @juliegittoes.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

The glow of light through these windows is aways feels like hope and consolation - knowing that prayer, worship, witness and community life have been nurtured in this place for a 1000 years! #tinyjoys #hope St Mary’s Hendon

The south windows of St Mary’s glowing with light just as it fell dark - windows are plain glass set in whitewashed walls (the tower and flag just visible).

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Dr Julie Gittoes @juliegittoes.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Got home after a run - ready to settle down with MOJO’s interview with Jarvis Cocker whilst listening to the cover CD - and Pulp’s new single “Spike Island” was on radio 2. #EasterMondayTreat #Pulp

The cover of the latest MOJO magazine with a photo of Jarvis Cocker and a CD entitled “forty odd years”.

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Dr Julie Gittoes @juliegittoes.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Yes, that was another line that jumped out at me.

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Dr Julie Gittoes @juliegittoes.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

May Pope Francis rest in peace. On Easter Day he spoke of the resurrection of Jesus as the basis of the renewal of hope that peace is possible - evil no longer has the upper hand: “Love has triumphed over hatred, light over darkness and truth over falsehood. Forgiveness has triumphed over revenge.”

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"Urbi et Orbi" - Easter 2025 | Francis

Urbi Et Orbi Message of His Holiness Pope Francis - Easter 2025

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Dr Julie Gittoes @juliegittoes.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Alleluia! Christ is risen! Five services, two churches, one lunch invitation and lovely walk home. It’s been an extraordinary week: poignant, reflective, encouraging, joyful. Living in relation to love’s risen body (after R. S. Thomas - “The Answer”). #alleluia #easterday #christisrisen

A lit Easter candle with a green wax relief Celtic cross - and white and yellow flowers at the base

An Easter garden - three small crosses in the foreground with yellow and white flowers around them. Small vases of primroses are placed next to the tomb, with a stone rolled away. In the background is the white altar frontal with an embroidered image of the risen Christ

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Dr Julie Gittoes @juliegittoes.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Alleluia! Christ is risen! Vigil, BCP plus two sung masses - great joy & evensong still to come! #alleluia #easterday #christisrisen

The pascal candle with a Celtic cross - alpha and omega and year 2025 in green wax relief - lit on front of the high altar and stained glass window at Christ Church Hendon

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Dr Julie Gittoes @juliegittoes.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Went for a walk calling to mind these words from Job (and hearing Handel’s setting of them in “The Messiah”. For I know that my Redeemer lives… and that at the last he will stand upon the earth; and after my skin has been thus destroyed, then in my flesh I shall see God!

One of the gravestones in St Mary’s church yard - a Celtic style cross design with intricate carving. It stands under a yew tree

A cluster of “forget me not” flowers - tiny, delicate blue petals with a yellow centre.

The light shining through new leaves on a tree - branches reaching towards, bathed in vibrant green

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Dr Julie Gittoes @juliegittoes.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

In between, broke my Good Friday fast with chips and onion rings in my local chippie. They usually play radio 2… on Friday it was radio 3 and Bach’s Matthew Passion. I told them appreciated it; they said it was important that day.

A plate of chips and some onion rings - instead of fish - the vegetable option for breaking Good Friday fast.

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Dr Julie Gittoes @juliegittoes.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

#HolySaturday God of compassion, you regard the forsaken and give hope to the crushed in spirit; hear those who cry to you in distress and bring your ransomed people to sing your glorious praise, now and for ever. Amen.

The altar of repose in the sacrament chapel - empty apart from the now extinguished candles on the altar itself.

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Dr Julie Gittoes @juliegittoes.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

#GoodFriday at Christ Church before stations of the cross & liturgy at St Mary’s. Praying for those for whom the world is unsafe/threatening Reproach has broken my heart; I am full of heaviness. For the Lord listens to the needy, and his own who are imprisoned he does not despise. Ps 69:22, 35

The figure of Jesus on the cross with Mary his mother and the beloved disciple on either side - carved in dark wood with halos and details in gold.

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Dr Julie Gittoes @juliegittoes.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

After the watch on #MaundyThursday remembering the last supper and the command to love one another; watching and waiting to the point of sleep, arrest and desertion.

St Mary’s church illuminated only by candles burning on the votive stand. Arches framed by light with the outline of chairs in a now empty building

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Dr Julie Gittoes @juliegittoes.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

#HolyWeek in images. From Friday’s performance of “The Messiah”, to #PalmSunday liturgies and “Time for Jesus” in the evening: moving and intense start to Holy Week.

The high altar at St Mary’s with a red frontal with palm branches in front of it - a cross with a purple robe draped over it and a crown of thorns stands on the foreground

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Dr Julie Gittoes @juliegittoes.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

It was such a joy to meet you at last Maddy and to hear about your research! Thank you for sharing these photos of some of the monuments at St Mary’s, Hendon - and our fabulous font!

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Dr Julie Gittoes @juliegittoes.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Taken after evensong last night. The glow of candles in the stillness and beauty of this ancient place where we add our praise & prayer to those which have echoed down the centuries. Our stories held within God’s story. This is precious. There is consolation in this #sacredspace #tinyjoys

The inside of St Mary’s church in Hendon taken after evensong. The lights have been turned off so it’s lit by the glow of candle light alone. You can see the outline of the pulpit and chairs, the medieval arches and the small windows above.

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Dr Julie Gittoes @juliegittoes.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Playing with light, shadow, cloud and darkness - Anthony McCall exhibition at Tate Modern. It was playful and contemplative #tinyjoy

Me standing in the middle of the Anthony McCall installation: two arcs of bright white as the projected light casts shadows; there is darkness and beams of light outlining my figure

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Dr Julie Gittoes @juliegittoes.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

The view leaving Blackfriars looking back across the Thames to St Paul’s - seen through the metalwork of the bridge on a grey drizzly day. A familiar sight with lots of memories

The girders of Blackfriars Bridge framing the river Thames and St Paul’s cathedral with its famous dome seen through a smudgy window on a grey day

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