Dancing with wolves

As usual moving proved not to be as easy as it should have been. There was no house for the Aldersley Team Vicar. Jim had lived in Church Cottage, a house owned by the parish, but the parish wanted it back. So the diocese had to set about finding a suitable house in the area. In the end one of the parishioners decided she wanted to sell and the diocese bought the house on the basis that they would put an extension on the back to make it suitable for church meetings. It took them a couple of years to get around to doing so.

The move was also complicated by the fact that James announced his retirement from St Michael’s Tettenhall as soon as my appointment was made official. He took the (female!) NSM curate with him. With Mark fully occupied in Pendeford that left me to cover the interregnum as well as get to know Christ the King.

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