It’s Advent Sunday tomorrow and the day chosen for my retirement service...which is weird...
My family has shrunk and I now have very few relatives left but one of them will come with me to the choral evensong.
The family I still have in the north never quite got their heads around my ordination....clearly this was something they had never contemplated...
Me too if it comes to that...to be ordained as a priest in my old age was decidedly odd.
I have not driven up to Lancashire for years. Indeed just driving to Truro tends to put me off....I’m safe on this small peninsular where I live now so getting around the various churches is the most I can do right right now safely.
And this is fine. If I’m going any further I rely on the young man who drives me to Southampton several times a year.
I’m not going anywhere much during the next weeks...
One of my recent visitors declared the way out of my drive and onto the road as a risk...a hazard in fact which means I am very careful when leaving home.
No one at any time in my life could have described me as timid. I’m not.
But I am navigating through the next months very carefully....there are just too many traps for the unwary...
I am still however aware....mostly.....
So sometime very soon I will start the packing...for my Christmas break. But not yet! Let’s get my retirement over first!
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