We had a great weekend this Bank Holiday. We had tickets for Basil Brush on the Monday – the Joker’s fave, natch. Nanna and Grandpa, Granny and Auntie Icklesis and Uncle Trainspotter came and joined us, so it was a real full house.
There were more of us than this...
This is one of the blessings of Vicarage life – you have the big house, so family gatherings can be, and therefore are, held at your house. But family gatherings happen mostly at weekends, when the Vicar is working, so there is a lot of busy-ness all round. Fun but a bit crazy.
Our busy weekend of visitors was made a little more manic by the addition of a young mum and her baby who’d been made homeless on Sunday morning and ended up staying for a couple of nights too.
The challenge for a Vicar’s wife is to remain godly and gracious in the midst of the blessings and chaos of visitors. I’m not sure I did all that well so I’m especially greatful that my helpful visitors mucked in with cooking, clearing up and even helped to scale my Everest-like washing pile!
The Vicar's Wife 
Did you get any new jokes from the Basil Brush show?
Not as many as I was hoping for, although the Joker is enjoying telling us that something is ‘seriarse’ (keep your mouth wide open at the end to get the effect). You probably had to be there though…
It was rip roaring fun at Basil Brush. Almost as mad as the time spent at the vicarage. But strangely it was a really good family time (and I’m including extra girl and baby in that too) not least because the vicars wife, vicar, queen, joker and engineer make all guests feel totally at home with them whatever they are doing by just being themselves. This will stand them in good stead in years to come in parish life. The vicars wife may have a nice cake plate (ahem!) but no airs and graces here.
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