A New Month, A New Life?

Most of the people who follow this blog will probably know by now that I was rejected by my BAP, and so won’t start to train for the priesthood for at least another 2 years. The ins and outs behind this, and what followed leaves me with a fair few rather catty observations, so for now, I shall not explore that subject further..

However, as the future I had carefully planned for was turned upside down, I found myself needing a job – badly. It was a prospect I wasn’t looking forward to at all. The last time I tried applying for jobs in the UK I had to apply for 386 jobs before I finally managed to find full-time employment. However, now having both a UK degree and some work history to show in the UK, I found myself being rather popular, in fact, I applied for less than 20 jobs and had about 6 invites to interviews. In the end, I was offered, and accepted, a dream job – Operations Manager at Galop – the UK’s only LGBT specific anti-violence charity.

I have been there for almost a month now, and it’s fair to say that I am loving it so far. The job is lovely, and the team is great. Of course, being back in my beloved London is a great added bonus! Another thing to put on the list of superlatives about my current life is that I have ended up worshipping in a church where a close friend is the incumbent, and so I’ve already been back in the cassock twice since I left Oxford.

On Saturday, I will also be back marching at London Pride – the first time ever marching here in London and the first time marching in a Pride since 2004. With the state of the world – and recent events – it is more important than usual to march, and on Saturday, more than ever for me, it most certainly feels like Pride will be a protest, not a party.

Anyway, I will hopefully be more active on the blog now that I will have a life worth blogging about again.

(The picture was taken by me on my recent 10-mile walk from Blackfriars to Canary Wharf – gotta love a summery London!)