Are you sitting down???

Hello again! I hope that you are sitting down, otherwise the shock of me blogging so quickly again after my last post (given my recent record) may actually cause you to fall over with shock!!

I forgot to mention in my last post that at church now I have started serving not only at Low Mass, but also at a couple of Sung Mass services, in the absence of Roy. I'm getting there...slowly...the prompts are becoming a little less frequent. However, I did have one, shall we say, incident, involving charcoal and carpet!! Still, I confessed to Bishop Damien, and so I was forgiven...although Roy mentions it fairly often!!

The shop is going well, sales seem to be picking up a little, footflow is still good and we are getting a very positive response in general. Our range of stock is increasing regularly, and this will have a positive impact on sales. I think that we could be, I say we...I mean I!!), very busy with the run up to Christmas.

There have been one or two people that have come in wanting to enter into some kind of theological debate, but I have handled it well I believe. Some rather unlikely looking characters have also come in and purchased items that you would not expect them to. I suppose that we are all guilty of sterotyping people though. Mind you, saying that, one of them purchased a rosary, and he asked me what it was, he just wanted it for his girlfriend because it looked nice!!

We have now started taking stock photos for the website, so hopefully, God willing, it wont be too long before that is up and running.

On a more personal level I have decided that I will shortly be filling in the application form for ministry. I have printed it off of the church's website, and now need to find a quiet time to complete it. Saying that, I first need to find my educational and employment history things at home. They were all kept in a document folder, but I can't find it for love nor money...I reckon that Debbie has either moved it or thrown it away by mistake, although she'd never own up to it! I last had it when I was filling in the application form for this job, and thought I knew where I had left it. I suppose if the worst comes to the worst then I could always ask the Bishop for a copy of my job application, or rather just those bits of it.

Oh well, that's enough for now, if I keep it short and sweet it encourages to update it more often...famous last words!

Until next time......................