Sorrel Shamel-Wood
@sorrelmay.bsky.social
Church of England priest. Increasingly
confused millennial. Toddler and baby Mum.
confused millennial. Toddler and baby Mum.
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A country of small roads, limited parking and congestion charges. This makes no sense.🤷♂️
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Number of US-style pickup trucks on UK roads up 92% in a decade, data shows
Exclusive: Campaigners say ‘menacing vehicles’ are putting children at risk owing to their large front blind zones
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2026 at 6:31 AM
A country of small roads, limited parking and congestion charges. This makes no sense.🤷♂️
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Kids these days don’t know they’re born. Watching the entirety of Mary Poppins on Disney with no adverts and no accidental rugby match taped over the top of it right before the finale. I’m weirdly unfamiliar with the end due to that aforementioned incident.
January 23, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Kids these days don’t know they’re born. Watching the entirety of Mary Poppins on Disney with no adverts and no accidental rugby match taped over the top of it right before the finale. I’m weirdly unfamiliar with the end due to that aforementioned incident.
My fascination with the Beckham story is just escapism and avoidance about the world basically falling apart, isn’t it? Also the cow that can scratch itself.
January 20, 2026 at 5:57 PM
My fascination with the Beckham story is just escapism and avoidance about the world basically falling apart, isn’t it? Also the cow that can scratch itself.
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I think C of E comms should use this. Somehow.
January 19, 2026 at 12:50 PM
I think C of E comms should use this. Somehow.
Thank you, Stranger Things, for introducing me to this delightful, and deeply Christian novel. I can’t believe I‘ve never read it before!
January 19, 2026 at 9:22 PM
Thank you, Stranger Things, for introducing me to this delightful, and deeply Christian novel. I can’t believe I‘ve never read it before!
I would just like one play date that trundles along without the preschooler at some point randomly retrieving and pretending to read the Bible.
January 18, 2026 at 10:19 PM
I would just like one play date that trundles along without the preschooler at some point randomly retrieving and pretending to read the Bible.
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There is a new autistic barbie out, but no one is talking about her mother, undiagnosed computer engineer barbie about to get the surprise of her life when she starts to argue with the evaluator that these are all normal childhood behaviours that she had when she was the same age.
January 13, 2026 at 3:15 AM
There is a new autistic barbie out, but no one is talking about her mother, undiagnosed computer engineer barbie about to get the surprise of her life when she starts to argue with the evaluator that these are all normal childhood behaviours that she had when she was the same age.
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babybel implies the existence of scarybel, sportybel, gingerbel and poshbel
January 13, 2026 at 4:50 AM
babybel implies the existence of scarybel, sportybel, gingerbel and poshbel
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If you’ve never been to an Episcopal Church service, I highly recommend it. I’m an avowed atheist, but my local Episcopal church is so amazing and the messages are always about building community and love. It can lift even the most skeptical soul in these dark times.
January 11, 2026 at 5:06 AM
If you’ve never been to an Episcopal Church service, I highly recommend it. I’m an avowed atheist, but my local Episcopal church is so amazing and the messages are always about building community and love. It can lift even the most skeptical soul in these dark times.
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If you live or work in Oxford diocese (that means Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire) then please fill in this questionnaire about what you’d like to see in the next bishop: oxford.anglican.org/consultation
Consultation - Diocese of Oxford
Anyone living, working or worshipping in the diocese can contribute their views on who should be our next Bishop of Oxford.
oxford.anglican.org
January 10, 2026 at 8:02 AM
If you live or work in Oxford diocese (that means Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire) then please fill in this questionnaire about what you’d like to see in the next bishop: oxford.anglican.org/consultation
AI slop, which I didn’t even ask for. Of course the film’s release is in the future, not the past! Such a silly answer.
January 9, 2026 at 10:07 PM
AI slop, which I didn’t even ask for. Of course the film’s release is in the future, not the past! Such a silly answer.
This is beginning to have the same vibe as preachers who keep predicting the End Times.
January 9, 2026 at 9:57 AM
This is beginning to have the same vibe as preachers who keep predicting the End Times.
I would love to be Karen Wheeler in Strange Things, or of course Winona, but in reality I am Dustin’s mum.
January 8, 2026 at 7:37 PM
I would love to be Karen Wheeler in Strange Things, or of course Winona, but in reality I am Dustin’s mum.
My sermon from last week kind of feels more relevant this week, actually: likestarsintheworld.wordpress.com/2026/01/04/o...
One of the Least
This was my sermon at the University Church on 28th December 2025. I don’t preach as often in my new role, so I haven’t been updating this blog as regularly. This sermon was for Holy In…
likestarsintheworld.wordpress.com
January 4, 2026 at 8:47 AM
My sermon from last week kind of feels more relevant this week, actually: likestarsintheworld.wordpress.com/2026/01/04/o...
Who can guess what job I do from the contents of my bag?
January 3, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Who can guess what job I do from the contents of my bag?
What if Barb was supposed to be Robin’s soulmate?
January 3, 2026 at 1:51 PM
What if Barb was supposed to be Robin’s soulmate?
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For the 1st Shabbat of 2026, 10 things (in no particular order) that this rabbi humbly suggests each of us can do to make 2026 more sustainable than 2025.
Note that these will look different for each of us because we have different capacities and professional/personal demands. That's ok.
Note that these will look different for each of us because we have different capacities and professional/personal demands. That's ok.
January 2, 2026 at 9:15 PM
For the 1st Shabbat of 2026, 10 things (in no particular order) that this rabbi humbly suggests each of us can do to make 2026 more sustainable than 2025.
Note that these will look different for each of us because we have different capacities and professional/personal demands. That's ok.
Note that these will look different for each of us because we have different capacities and professional/personal demands. That's ok.
Please help me choose a New Year’s Resolution:
a) Tennis
b) Ice skating
c) Roller skating
d) Finish the novel!
e) Ironing
f) Be nicer to everyone
g) Vegetables
a) Tennis
b) Ice skating
c) Roller skating
d) Finish the novel!
e) Ironing
f) Be nicer to everyone
g) Vegetables
December 31, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Please help me choose a New Year’s Resolution:
a) Tennis
b) Ice skating
c) Roller skating
d) Finish the novel!
e) Ironing
f) Be nicer to everyone
g) Vegetables
a) Tennis
b) Ice skating
c) Roller skating
d) Finish the novel!
e) Ironing
f) Be nicer to everyone
g) Vegetables
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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
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I have lots of questions about what happened at the Christmas Eve service...👀
December 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I have lots of questions about what happened at the Christmas Eve service...👀
My three year old is refusing to wear a novelty Christmas tree headpiece at nursery tomorrow because “hairbands are for girls” and so he “only wants to wear it at home” and this is the narrow view of gender you get if you raise a boy in a household that doesn’t watch association football.
December 18, 2025 at 8:58 PM
My three year old is refusing to wear a novelty Christmas tree headpiece at nursery tomorrow because “hairbands are for girls” and so he “only wants to wear it at home” and this is the narrow view of gender you get if you raise a boy in a household that doesn’t watch association football.
You can have a tastefully, symmetrically decorated gingerbread house or you can let small children be involved. It can’t be both. Choose wisely.
December 13, 2025 at 7:41 PM
You can have a tastefully, symmetrically decorated gingerbread house or you can let small children be involved. It can’t be both. Choose wisely.
Christmas craft workshop and live nativity animals, SATURDAY 13TH DECEMBER 10-12, University Church on Oxford High Street. Animals include donkey, Shetland pony, sheep, goats and chickens. Feed and grooming included. Probably not grooming the chickens though, they won’t like it.
December 10, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Christmas craft workshop and live nativity animals, SATURDAY 13TH DECEMBER 10-12, University Church on Oxford High Street. Animals include donkey, Shetland pony, sheep, goats and chickens. Feed and grooming included. Probably not grooming the chickens though, they won’t like it.