Category Archives: Personal

Barton, Cambridgeshire – St Peter

Posted on December 28, 2021 by admin

Our 38th wedding anniversary, 3 December 2021. We drove to Barton and parked by the school so I could have an explore of St Peter’s – TL 408557. The village of my childhood. We moved here when I was 9. … Continue reading →

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Cambridge, Cambridgeshire – St Andrew’s Street Baptist Church

Posted on December 27, 2021 by admin

We are in Cambridge for a Wedding Anniversary break and on 2 December 2021 (37 years and 364 days since that Fateful Day) we walked along to St Andrew’s Street Baptist Church. I realised that, although we worshipped here for … Continue reading →

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northernvicarwalks November 2020

Posted on December 4, 2020 by admin

We were running a safe service in each church every Sunday, but were told on the evening of Saturday 31 October that Sunday 1 November would be the last service for several weeks. Apparently the announcement came as a surprise … Continue reading →

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National Memorial Arboretum, Staffordshire – RAF, Far East, Land Girls and Navy

Posted on August 20, 2020 by admin

Having visited the Millennium Chapel, we started to explore the grounds. There is no way I will do all the memorials, so we will have a selection of them. The gardens are lovely, and there is a good variety of … Continue reading →

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northernvicarwalks July 2020

Posted on August 19, 2020 by admin

This cartoon was in Private Eye and it sums everything up better than I can. I should have been celebrating my 25th anniversary of Ordination, instead we are struggling to get churches reopened. We had our first Sunday service at … Continue reading →

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northernvicarwalks – May 2020

Posted on June 3, 2020 by admin

This cartoon sums up the shambles that was May. If you don’t laugh, you’ll cry. It will be interesting if people reading this blog in 20 years time have any idea who the cartoon relates to. I know an historian … Continue reading →

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northernvicarwalks [or doesn’t walk] – April 2000

Posted on May 5, 2020 by admin

Here we are in the time of Covid-19. This is one cartoon which sums up the month. The one below sums up what it felt like not to do Holy Week and Easter in my churches. You had to try … Continue reading →

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northernvicarwalks (and has train rides) – February 2020

Posted on March 17, 2020 by admin

This is the month that a Barham makes it into Railway Magazine. It’s not me, it’s Hannah – in a feature on the problems of disability access to trains. This was her first ride on an LNER Azuma (and I … Continue reading →

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A personal pause – another (two) MAs

Posted on January 30, 2020 by admin

My wife Julie is the clever clogs of the family. MA (Cantab), PGCE, MA (Open University). I have an MA (Cantab) and a BTh Hons (Nottingham). Once I could put ALA after my name, until I stopped being an Associate … Continue reading →

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A Personal Pause – Harry and Sarah’s Wedding

Posted on October 26, 2019 by admin

Back in the North East for Harry and Sarah’s wedding at Newcastle Civic Centre on Saturday 21 September 2019. Here is me wearing a tie (and needing to lose some weight), Julie looking decidedly elf-like, Hannah (the one who works … Continue reading →

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