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Well, it’s good to be back, if still not exactly full time. I’m sorry to say that I’m not actually better, we’ve just got to the point where the painkillers are more or less In Britain there are about 40 species. Some are rare, two are thought to be extinct and some are balanced with the pain, but I live in hope that the tests I’m now waiting for will lead to so small a microscope is needed to identify them! There are 25 easily recognisable species treatment, and I’ll be able to move towards working full time again. Many thanks for all (though some are quite variable in colour and markings). Five species are common to gardens, the good wishes and offers of help I’ve received over the last few months. including the 7-spot, the 2-spot, the 10-spot, and the 14-spot Ladybirds, as well as the colonising Harlequin, which arrived in the UK in 2004. As well as missing out on a lot of things going on in the parish while I’ve been off, I A number of others are found in hedgerows, meadows and grassland, and broadleaved and missed a very important celebration in the Church of England. At the beginning of May conifer woodland and trees, so these species may also be seen in our gardens if you live near to, there was a big service at St. Paul’s Cathedral celebrating 20 years since the ordination or have some of these habitats in your garden. of women as priests, with hundreds of the women ordained that year processing to the cathedral – and as one of the women who became a priest that year, I was very sorry Adults hibernate over-winter, and when emerging on warm, sunny days in spring, they fly off to find their favourite habitats. After mating, the female will lay eggs on plant stems and leaves, in not to be there. Friends who did go tell me it was a wonderful service, led by a woman leaf litter and other debris. The young will hatch, sometimes only a few days later if the weather priest with the Archbishop of Canterbury taking second place and assisting her, and a is warm. The larvae will join their parents in voraciously eating aphids (that is, green- or white- fifteen minute standing ovation as the women came into the cathedral. fly). All the garden ladybird species eat aphids, and some species will also devour scale- and sap- sucking insects. It’s wonderful that women and men can now follow God’s call to service as priests, leading worship, offering God’s forgiveness so that people can make a fresh start, The larvae look very different to the adult: they are thin, small, with 6 legs and a longish body, no accompanying people through times of sadness and joy, taking baptisms, weddings and wings, and are blackish-grey with some spots or streaks of orange or yellow. Some people say funerals, praying and leading in prayer, teaching, preaching, supporting, and all the they resemble bird droppings – which may be a possible deterrent to predators! The larvae take two to four weeks to reach maturity, at which point they pupate, emerging as adults just a few many and varied things that are part of a priest’s ministry. And sometimes it’s the little weeks later. They spend the rest of the summer eating and getting ready to over-winter. The things that make the difference - the first time I really believed I was a priest was when hibernation sites ideally have a fairly constant temperature and are frost-free, so the ladybirds I got to process into a cathedral service in the middle of the line walking next to a man, choose places under bark, around the bases of trees and shrubs, or around window frames and because before then the women, as juniors, were always together at the front. It feels as buildings. Sometimes hundreds or thousands huddle together! if we’re getting closer to God’s wishes for the church when we’re able to walk – and minister – together as equals. Try to avoid using pesticides or killing either the adults or young, and allow some untidiness in the garden for them to hibernate in, and lay their eggs. Please be kind to ladybirds - they are We still haven’t reached full equality, tho’, or full acceptance. I haven’t been told definitely the gardener’s friend! Donna and Tim recently (as I was when I was first priested) that I am ‘a sin against the Holy Spirit’, but there are still churches where I can’t work, or even take a service. And what’s actually WILSTHORPE worse than that is that there are churches which theoretically are happy with women priests, but who won’t agree to take one as their Rector or Vicar. Country parishes, it First Sunday of the month is Holy Communion at 10.30. Everybody most welcome. must be said, are rather better at accepting women – it’s the big town parishes that th often aren’t so keen. In the church as a whole, while about a third of priests are now At the coffee morning held on Saturday 17 May, over £400 was raised towards St Faith's Church women, only a quarter of paid priests are female – and over half of the unpaid priests. and the organisers send a huge thank you to everyone who helped with their time and donations. And only 11% of senior posts are held by women – and after twenty years, there are 2nd/3rd August 2014 – an exhibition will be held in St Faith’s Church to commemorate the start of plenty more who are experienced enough to hold a senior post. And, of course, we’re the First World War. If anybody living in Wilsthorpe who has a relative who served in the Great still waiting for the legislation to allow women to become bishops, tho’ it is to be hoped War or who passed on any experiences and would like them included in the exhibition, please do that will come soon, and we may even see our first woman bishop sometime next year.