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Kate Massey @katemassey.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Utterly horrific clergy nightmare last night. I had a big wedding with a very stressed bride, but then decided to go on holiday to Florida instead without getting cover. Panicked in airport, cancelled holiday but then couldn't get back in time. 16yo daughter arranged emergency cover & was VERY cross

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Kate Massey @katemassey.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

A loooong desk day in a chilly study means all my muscles are tight. Bath and yoga before bed, I reckon...

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Kate Massey @katemassey.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Did my last-night-of-leave sneaky peek at my email inbox. No disasters await me there in the morning. Phew!

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Kate Massey @katemassey.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I nicked an idea from Instagram and challenged my girls to make a PowerPoint of their year. Oh my goodness, it was brilliant and hilarious. They were brilliant and hilarious. We might do this again...

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Kate Massey @katemassey.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Today I dropped the teen at the cinema to watch Wicked for the second time in a week. She had booked a Singalong showing AND WAS THE ONLY PERSON THERE. Three hours of belting in her own movie theatre. What a way to end her year! 🤣

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Kate Massey @katemassey.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Happy Birthday to this ball of fluff. Five years old today!

An adorable apricot miniature labradoodle stands look at the camera. She is in a living room with toys on the rug around her.

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Kate Massey @katemassey.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I am looking to improve my everyday German language skills. Are there some good German language posters on Blue Sky I could be following? @mthrjo.bsky.social can you help?

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Kate Massey @katemassey.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Oh dear goodness. The musical theatre obsessed teen started crying at the opening number of #Wicked continued through the entire two and a bit hours of PART ONE and sobbed all the way home. Apparently we do this again next autumn... It was VERY good though.

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Kate Massey @katemassey.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Bribed Luna with many treats to wear her Christmas jumper. As my children are officially too grown-up to do cute, we needed a new model for the photo on the Christmas thank you card!

Apricot mini labradoodle wearing a green and red jumper

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Kate Massey @katemassey.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Thoroughly enjoying watching @revrachelmann.bsky.social on University Challenge tonight!!!

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Kate Massey @katemassey.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Happy Christmas to all members of the #clergymaltclub (Remember, despite the name, it is a very inclusive bunch. You don't have to be clergy or drink malt, just be one of those hard working church folk who comes home from Midnight Mass, pours a drink and thinks "Made it! He's here! Alleluia!")

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Kate Massey @katemassey.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

I have a cold. No big deal. But on top of Long Covid, it is limiting. I have no energy at all. Even my modest to-do list is looking daunting. Hey ho. What will be will be. Three services and then I can stop for a week...

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Kate Massey @katemassey.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Argh, the Advent 3 lurgy has finally got me with 24 hours to go! However, it is my Proper Day Off so I am staying snuggly and giving my immune system an encouraging pep talk. Come on white cells! Blast those bugs...

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Kate Massey @katemassey.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Back from a morning at school with genuine face ache from laughing so much. The Staff Panto was an absolute riot. I am so grateful to the school staff I work with for their determination not just to give our children the best education they can, but to give them the most incredible memories too.

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Kate Massey @katemassey.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Ugh. Clergy/Church Leader Festive Insomnia. Normally I can sleep for Scotland but in this season my brain is so full!

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Kate Massey @katemassey.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Day off plans ended up including half an hour of yin yoga and half an hour of weights. It's is remarkable how exercise gets rid of the tension I am holding in my body. Much needed at this time of year...

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Kate Massey @katemassey.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

After Quite A Week™️ it is a Proper Day Off before another equally lively six days. There will be some resting, some parcel wrapping and some Strictly watching...

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Kate Massey @katemassey.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Okay, who am I telling the Christmas Story today? Checks which day it is... Checks notes... Ah, 700 school children at their Christingle Day. Makes Christingle costume out of stuff in study before breakfast...

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Kate Massey @katemassey.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Making up Christmas bags for families in our community is one of my favourite jobs of the year. It's also the most nerve-wracking as we never know if our budget will cover the need. But this year we've done it again and I am so grateful for the generosity of our community and the goodness of God!

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Kate Massey @katemassey.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

This is a mood - as the youngsters say...

A Duolingo image. The phrase is "Es tut mir leid, aber ich habe viel zu tun" The translation below says "I'm sorry but I have a lot to do"

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Charlotte Gale @revcharlottegale.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Theology students & book lovers. We have a large range of high quality secondhand theology books for sale at St Clare’s, all priced much lower than Amazon. Spread the word 😊 #books #theology #cofe stclaresatthecathedral.org/product/qual...

Picture showing a selection of book covers, part of the collection of books for sale at St Clare’s.

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Kate Massey @katemassey.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Turned up for a school Winter Wonderland expecting to waft around eating mince pies. Instead I was assigned to a craft table supervising (very loosely!) a multitude of children and their carers as they made snowflakes. Harder work than planned, but I did get a lovely snuggle from 8 month old Olivia!

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Kate Massey @katemassey.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

It turns out my #LongCovid wasn't "better". After 4 years, I am just very good at pacing. Deciding to "push through the fatigue" on a busy weekend has resulted in a week of pain and exhaustion. Hey ho. Lesson learned. Grateful that my case is mild so such errors are just inconvenient not disastrous

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Kate Massey @katemassey.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Chris McCausland is an absolute utter legend. I want him to win. He is maybe not as perfect as the others but what he is achieving surpasses anything I have ever seen on this show...

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Kate Massey @katemassey.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Where are my Strictly buddies at?!

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Kate Massey @katemassey.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Do something nice with your folks, OH suggested. Like a Christmas Market. In Birmingham. The day after Black Friday. 4 Saturdays before Christmas. It was not exactly relaxing, but a quick visit to the stunning Cathedral provided an oasis of beauty and calm in our afternoon!

A helterskelter in the grounds of Birmingham Cathedral

A Byrne Jones stained glass window showing the Nativity

My parents with my daughter in Grand Central with Ozzy the Bull

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Kate Massey @katemassey.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

As a veteran of many winter Blue Coat Theatre events 🥶, I went to tonight's performance appropriately attired. I also had a blanket... The show was excellent and I was toasty!

A selfie. I am wearing a bobble hat, a cosy jumper and big winter coat...

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Charlotte Gale @revcharlottegale.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

What a fantastic evening, welcoming so many people to Coventry Cathedral to hear about my book. Feel really grateful and blessed. @canterburypress.bsky.social @coventrycathedral.bsky.social #cofe

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Kate Massey @katemassey.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

A GLORIOUS final walk this morning to get us over the 50 mile mark! We have also raised £250 for the Samaritans which, as the graphic shows, can do a lot of good! Thank you for all the encouragement and support - moral and financial! 💚 www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...

A labradoodle bounding over an icy field of grass silhouetted against the winter sun

A sheet for counting mileage with 50.15 written on it and circled excitedly

A Samaritans info graphic explaining £10 could answer two calls for help

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Kate Massey @katemassey.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

With three days to go, we have passed the 45 mile mark in our 50 miles of dog-walking in November for the @samaritans.bsky.social There have been a few miserable rainy trudges, but then there have been mornings like this...

Morning sunrise through silhouettes of trees. A small dog at the top of a path

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Kate Massey @katemassey.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

An important reflection on conversations around assisted dying...

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Kate Massey @katemassey.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

So during November, my mini labradoodle Luna and I are trying to walk 50 miles for the @samaritans.bsky.social A week to go and we are over 40 miles and have raised £250. Delighted to be supporting this brilliant charity.

Luna, an apricot mini labradoodle with snowflakes on her muzzle.

Luna walking through a wood of tall pine trees

A Samaritans meme saying

Whatever you're facing, we're here to listen. Call free day or night on 116 123

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Let’s remember that social media -even with all its drama- is the lesser hell for some people who come here to escape bigger dramas in their real lives. Do your little bit to make this place welcoming of the tired and the bruised ☀️

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Kate Massey @katemassey.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

So everyone is here now? This reminds me of student nights out pre-mobile phones when you would go on a pub crawl to find your mates... 🤣

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Kate Massey @katemassey.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

Yeah yeah, so it's Hogmanay (NYE for you unfortunate non-Scots) but it is also MY 4TH BIRTHDAY! Can I have a boop?

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Kate Massey @katemassey.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

Covid update - still got it! Feeling moderately rough and majorly bored In other news, Luna remains the cutest dog on the planet...

Cute apricot labradoodle posed elegantly on a rug

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Kate Massey @katemassey.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

So just after settling one long covid flare, I have a cold which has set off another! Seriously?! I am a Vicar at Christmas with a to-do list which won't do itself. Resting wasn't the plan...

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Kate Massey @katemassey.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

Today's triumph was - after many setbacks and calls to the bank helpline - completing an application for a bank account for an organisation I help run. When it is actually up and running, I shall open some bubbly...

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Kate Massey @katemassey.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

Luna clearly knows that I need a bit of TLC tonight... Important work at Synod this week, but exhausting and costly for all concerned.

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Kate Massey @katemassey.bsky.social · 12/11/2023

Our families at CAKE (Church for Adults, Kids, Everyone!) made wreaths of red, white and purple poppies today as we remembered our armed forces and all victims of war.

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Kate Massey @katemassey.bsky.social · 12/11/2023

Our second hoglet in a fortnight rescued and taken to our local wildlife sanctuary. Out during the day and far too small to survive winter in the wild...

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Kate Massey @katemassey.bsky.social · 12/11/2023

So our church energy bills are going up by £3.5k and our parish share by £2.5k next year. My lovely congregation are already generous. Hit me with your best community fundraising ideas!!!

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Kate Massey @katemassey.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

For various reasons, including my own rank stupidity, today was a seven service Sunday. I have never done it before in a dozen years' ordained ministry, and never intend to do it again. But God was amazing. I am so blessed to do what I do...

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Kate Massey @katemassey.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

A cope, mitre and crozier on the high altar in Coventry Cathedral awaiting the next Bishop of Coventry... An emotional service to bid farewell to Bishop Christopher.

Photo - the high altar in Coventry Cathedral with a gold cope, mitre and crozier on top

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Kate Massey @katemassey.bsky.social · 04/11/2023

Back from a week in a tiny cottage in a forest in Suffolk - very good for the soul!

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