The Vicar's Wife

It’s been a while since I posted a Vicar’s wife job description and yesterday was particularly manic, so I thought I’d give you yet another glimpse of life in our Vicarage from my perspective.

Yesterday I cooked:

• Meringues (using up leftovers) for Thursday’s coffee morning.
• Bread for lunch for mini mission team (7 adults expected, tho’ only 5 ate in the end).
• Soup for ditto.
• Lasagne for Diamond, a school gate mum friend who’s just moved house, and her family.
• Roast chicken, mashed potatoes & parsnip and steamed cabbage for the family, including Happy.
• Chicken stock from the chicken bones (see above).

Yesterday I hoovered:

• The hall
• The family room. This took longer than you’d think, due to wood burning stove dust getting into every crevice and me not having deep hoovered for er-hum weeks now.

Yesterday I organised:

• Our 5 year college reunion, including individually emailing everyone who’d not yet got back to me.
• My pantry. I would not have chosen to do this, you understand, but a shelf was on the point of collapse, so I had to empty it and the Vicar had to do some manly stuff with a drill. Result: lots of dust followed by safe, clean and reorganised shelf.



• Piano practice by three children.
• Quiz papers to be carried out by three children.
• Myself and two other women to start a new ministry in our church – we’re thinking of calling it ‘The Brunch Bunch’.
• The vast pile of odd socks and pants to prevent morning underwear crises, of which there are far too many in the Vicarage.

Yesterday I did not:

• Hoover the stairs and upper landing. Again.
• Pick up the form from school about applying to be a parent governor.
• Nobble the teacher who’s meant to be organising the volunteers so that I can start making use of my CRB form by going into school to help out.
• Remember to give the reply about the party to the Engineer’s friend’s mother.

Today I am going to:

• Hoover the stairs and landings. I am.
• Attend a prayer meeting.
• Help with preparation of lunch club vegetables and the deep cleaning of the church hall kitchen.
• Get those governor forms and nobble that teacher. And the mother.
• Take the kids to swimming lessons.
• Cook a curry so that everyone can eat – at different times due to the Vicar having Governors and a baptism meeting.
• Make a list of all the work that needs doing to the house – we have our Quinquennial tomorrow.

Wish me luck!