William Ingle-Gillis @padrewill.wales · 30/08/2026Listening to my wife complain to the elder daughter about our common work-imposed software suite. It’s clear enough that Copilot is the new Clippy. The world is not better off for this. Me? I’ve managed to put some research in and detach myself once more from Microsoft as far as possible. 120
William Ingle-Gillis @padrewill.wales · 16/08/2026Hilton Head Beach, South Carolina. Might oughta been worried a little less about the alligators and more about the jellyfish. That is all. 000
William Ingle-Gillis @padrewill.wales · 08/08/2026I’ve been taken to a well known American craft store (which I won’t name because apparently they worship the Bad Jesus), and here is a rack of tribble carcasses. 020
William Ingle-Gillis @padrewill.wales · 03/08/2026I have a little ritual that evolved a while back, before I even realized it. Every time I land in the States, first thing I do, without fail, is go to the airport lounge and get me a nice big glass of unsweetened iced tea. Because I am a southern man. I don’t even drink iced tea at home. And yet … 010
William Ingle-Gillis @padrewill.wales · 31/07/2026Welp. My wife put my wallet through the washing machine just now, giving a rather more literal spin than usual to the term “money laundering”. 010
William Ingle-Gillis @padrewill.wales · 29/07/2026Thing is: I don’t ask for much. So when I cook some fancy farm-fresh bacon that my wife bought for me last week at the Royal Welsh and it fries up and tastes just like american bacon does, I can’t help but think the Bouncing Baby Jesus was smiling on me tonight. 000
William Ingle-Gillis @padrewill.wales · 28/07/2026I used to call Frank and Little Cat, both now sadly of blessèd memory, the Sons of Zebedee. Because anytime I sat down to eat, I had one on the right and one on the left. This doesn’t really have anything to do with your post. I’ll get me coat … 040
William Ingle-Gillis @padrewill.wales · 25/07/2026A little corner of Roath Park, Cardiff, looking for all the world like south Georgia. 020
William Ingle-Gillis @padrewill.wales · 23/07/2026The tortie-and-white is the Stoat; the proper calico is Dorothy Jean. They are relatively new to the household. This is the third, who’s been here almost since birth. Tiny Cat. 020
William Ingle-Gillis @padrewill.wales · 23/07/2026"Cats don't get on the counter": a photo essay. 230
William Ingle-Gillis @padrewill.wales · 22/07/2026This is Dorothy Jean. She swears. A lot. Almost can’t let her around parishioners. 060
William Ingle-Gillis @padrewill.wales · 12/07/2026I turned up to church today to find that a new-to-me congregation had bought me my own coffee mug. Sometimes it’s the little things that make this job totally worth it. 🙂 ⚓️ 0100
William Ingle-Gillis @padrewill.wales · 06/07/2026I’ve figured something out. Penny drop. Brits: y’all know how confused and upset y’all feel when some American mentions a peanut butter & jam sandwich? I feel exactly the same way about tuna, baked beans, and/or sweetcorn in any combination on a baked potato. 110
William Ingle-Gillis @padrewill.wales · 25/05/2026Sweet Bouncing Baby Beezus. Thanks to eldest daughter, I just discovered this exists. Peach. Sugar free. Pumped full of caffeine. What could be more perfect on a bank holiday Monday? I am sooooo there for this. 000
William Ingle-Gillis @padrewill.wales · 13/05/2026Right, anyone else ever taken a retreat and walked away with new ink? ⚓️ 040
William Ingle-Gillis @padrewill.wales · 16/04/2026Hell, yeah, Church in Wales! 🏳️🌈🏴 Love wins! ❤️ By a handy margin! 👋 ⚓️ #ChurchinWales #YrEglwysYngNghymru #Pride 081
William Ingle-Gillis @padrewill.wales · 09/04/2026I’m in the little book shop of the Catholic cathedral in Birmingham. Lovely little shop. Packs a good punch with its book selection. But there is not a single glow-in-the-dark item to be found anywhere. There should be glow-in-the-dark stuff. ⚓️ 170
William Ingle-Gillis @padrewill.wales · 07/04/2026I wonder what Reform UK think they have to gain by sending one of their vile, fascist campaign leaflets to my dead son? Thank god I’m battle-hardened. I’ve had parishioners whom this would simply break. No other party has made this mistake. #senedd2026 #seneddelections #ReformUK #ReformWales 130
William Ingle-Gillis @padrewill.wales · 06/04/2026Currently at this in Cardiff. Intermission. It’s good. Fans of the film, come see it. Haven’t seen the film? See it. Every time I do, I think, “This is the one where I don’t cry at the end.” And I do every time. There is power in a union. 361
William Ingle-Gillis @padrewill.wales · 06/04/2026I’ve had the best Holy Week that I’ve had in years. Engaged congregations. I used southern country gospel music all the way through (and they really got it). Joyful sunrise vigil with the whole clergy team. … and now it’s Easter Boxing Day, and I am doing not one dang thing. Perfect. ⚓️ 1170
William Ingle-Gillis @padrewill.wales · 31/03/2026So. This is an actual in-use, going-concern paschal candle in one of our churches in the ministry area. They’re getting a new one this year, by God, whether they like it or not. ⚓️ 10292
William Ingle-Gillis @padrewill.wales · 25/03/2026Newport Market to celebrate the younger daughter’s acquisition of a job. Never thought of putting peanut butter on a smash burger. And, friends? It does not suck. 000
William Ingle-Gillis @padrewill.wales · 03/03/2026Sometimes the mere fact of being a clergy person means you attract people with … errm … interesting worldviews. This email, which would probably take up 50 to 75 pages, if printed on paper, was cheerfully awaiting me when I awoke this morning. ⚓️ 081
William Ingle-Gillis @padrewill.wales · 14/02/2026Charleston, South Carolina, Publix supermarket. 14th Feb. 2026. And who knew that emu oil would be a viable commercial product? 000
William Ingle-Gillis @padrewill.wales · 13/01/2026Wife is out to dinner with a friend. Kids moved away. I’m home alone. So I’ve put my iPhone in karaoke mode and I’m singing my way through my country playlists. The Tiny Cat isn’t the least bit sure what she thinks of this development. 040
William Ingle-Gillis @padrewill.wales · 09/01/2026My resignation letter today to the Labour Party. #notinmyname #labour #labourgovernment #greenparty #greens #green 030
William Ingle-Gillis @padrewill.wales · 02/01/2026I miss the BBC globe. Just putting that out there. 010
William Ingle-Gillis @padrewill.wales · 29/12/2025On the other hand, I suspect that he feels less strongly about people with racist and pro-British views. 🤨 011
William Ingle-Gillis @padrewill.wales · 25/12/2025“This is my coffee. There are many like it, but this one is mine.” 040
William Ingle-Gillis @padrewill.wales · 25/12/2025Christmas services all done. Preached about Frank (of blessèd memory), depicted. Now prepping my slow cooker venison stew, my pressure cooker brisket, and my roast duck. Someone else can do the veggies. Then breathe … Merry Fishmas, all. 170
William Ingle-Gillis @padrewill.wales · 25/12/2025Midnight Mass done at St. Cadoc’s, Raglan. Andrew tidying up! I’m off home to join #ClergyMaltClub (or something like it since I don’t really drink) and get ready to do it all over again in the morn. Merry Fishmas, every one. ⚓️ 1401
William Ingle-Gillis @padrewill.wales · 19/12/2025The eldest girl hand-sewed me a Star Trek garment bag for my robes out of a duvet cover for my birthday. Shows she’s been paying attention! 🖖 😂 3130
William Ingle-Gillis @padrewill.wales · 06/10/2025I usually wake up to a long list of random things demanding my immediate attention on a Monday morning. Tree surgeon getting my cat down from a 30 foot tree with slick bark and no lower branches is not normally one of them. And then today happened. 160
William Ingle-Gillis @padrewill.wales · 27/09/2025Dang. I’ve been in this country for 30 years. Had no idea there was swan meat going spare. :: lights up the charcoal for my smoker :: 151
William Ingle-Gillis @padrewill.wales · 04/09/2025We are back in the United Kingdom. Hard to mistake that, really. 030
William Ingle-Gillis @padrewill.wales · 30/07/2025New Archbishop of Wales: our own Bishop of Monmouth, Cherry Vann. Very exciting. May she do across Wales what she’s done for Monmouth. Nueva Arzobispa de Gales: nuestra propia Obispa de Monmouth, Cherry Vann. Que realice por todo Gales lo que ha realizado en Monmouth. ⚓️ 1252
William Ingle-Gillis @padrewill.wales · 24/07/2025Frank dice: “¿qué quieres decir? ¡¿12 horas?! ya está lista, ¿no?” Frank says: “what do you mean? 12 hours?! it’s ready now, isn’t it?” 120
William Ingle-Gillis @padrewill.wales · 24/07/2025Family group chat reflections on Ozzy (of blessèd memory). “Hates the winged.” ::snort:: 021
William Ingle-Gillis @padrewill.wales · 13/07/2025Gave up smoking more than a decade ago. Gave up vaping two weeks ago. Now, I’m no apologist for a nicotine addiction. Kids, if you don’t use this stuff, don’t get started. But, sweet Moses, I’m sure it says somewhere in the Bible that, when Jesus wanted a dip, this is the flavour he invented for it. 000
William Ingle-Gillis @padrewill.wales · 04/07/2025En camino a San Juan de Puerto Rico. Mi lugar de felicidad. 🥰 030
William Ingle-Gillis @padrewill.wales · 04/07/2025So. Got this just this in my email morning. When did the Social ****ing Security Administration become a propaganda wing for the Republican Party?! How far we’ve fallen. How much lower can we go? This just is not right in any way. Happy damn 4th of July, America. 🤬 151