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Mthr Sian Clare Parker
@sianclare.bsky.social
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Seeing through a glass darkly; trying to see face to face | erstwhile medievalist | interested in ecopoetics, theopoetics, and common or garden poetics | curate in Llandaf Diocese | Dw i'n dysgu Cymraeg | queer | she/her
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I am insufferably twee, and I make no apology for it.
A woman wearing a mid-length navy dress with a bold nativity-inspired pattern. The dress has doves and stars all over it, and the hem shows a Bethlehem skyline with sheep, shepherds, the wise men, and others.
October 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Living my best life today.
A woman in a white beekeeping suit. Her hands are on her hips and she is smiling.
September 11, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Week off. Time to read my ordination gift from @frgiacbelloli.bsky.social.

🕯⚓️
The front cover of a hardback book, Don't Forget We're Here Forever by Lamorna Ash. The book is yellow, with illustrations round the edge of a blue centreplate reminiscent of medieval illustrated manuscript.
August 19, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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The butterfly bush has been living up to its name!

#bloomscrolling
Side profile of a white butterfly with a small black spot on the tip of its wing. The butterfly is resting on a spray of purple flowers, in front of some greenery.
July 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Some nice #Bloomscrolling in the garden today!
A number of small purple flowers with a bumble bee feeding on them. The bumble bee's wings show some detail. Behind the flowers there are blurred green plants and a fence. A number of small purple flowers with a bumble bee feeding on them. The photo shows a ot of detail from the bee's body, from a side profile. Behind the flowers there are blurred green plants and a fence.
July 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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I'm slowly recovering from the intensity (and the heat!) of the past few days. The whole experience has been simultaneously breathtaking and inspiring. Particularly grateful to @scholarpriest.bsky.social for taking this picture of me at the altar during my first mass.
An altar, behind which I the priest am stood in a red chasuble with arms outstretched and eyes closed. To the left is a woman with dark hair wearing a white alb and red stole worn as a deacon. The wall behind is cream, with sunrays shining off it, and high up on the wall is a large wooden cross with jagged ironwork over the top.
June 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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A priest for ever.
Me, wearing a white chasuble, blessing a toddler, my two year old daughter who has blonde hair tied back and a rainbow stripe dress. She is being held by my wife, a white woman with tied back blonde hair and a blue dress.
June 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Spent a wonderful weekend on retreat with the nuns in Fairacres. If you need space, silence, sung offices (with feline co-worshipers!), and an orchard around which to amble, this is the place to find it.
In the foreground is a rectangular pond containing several plants and rocky areas. There is a lily flower in the middle of the pond. In the distance behind the pond stand a large tree in the middle of a lawn, and to the right of the pond is the edge of a white building. In the foreground, resting at the edge of the pond, is a cup of tea and a book with a blue cover titled 'God and Darkness: a Carmelite perspective'
May 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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I've never seen an unopened aquilegia flower before, but isn't she gorgeous?

#bloomscrolling
Whitish-pink flower bud against a leafy green background. The bud has 4 tips pointing out of the top, each with a curly end.
May 18, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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In the church Quiet Garden.

#bloomscrolling
Greenery in the background. In the foreground, to the bottom left, a flower with a purple centre and multiple smaller white flowers fanning out around it.
May 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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The basil and spring onions I got many weeks ago from the supermarket are so happy they're flowering! Basil flowers are very sweet and delicate. Spring onion flowers are...not.

#bloomscrolling
A plant with lots of healthy and vibrant green leaves, with rings of small white flowers growing at the end of a stem. A flower with no petals and lots of spiky and spindly stamina, growing on the end of a spring onion.
May 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Today's #bloomscrolling treat: an aquilegia that has appeared seemingly out of nowhere. No others nearby. Time to learn how to collect seeds so I can give her some buddies next year!
A delicate pink flower with downturned petals. In the background and out of focus is a wooden fence.
April 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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I gave up doomscrolling for Lent. For Easter, I'm taking up #bloomscrolling. Today I've been treated to my first cosmos of the season!
A flower with flat, bright pink petals, and a bold yellow centre.
April 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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An excellent afternoon.
Rowan Williams' book Looking East in Winter, lying on top of a wooden table next to a cup of tea. The sun is shining brightly, and there are bluebells growing in the background.
April 29, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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She's nearly there!
A picture update of the small bulb growing out of a brick wall and pavement in the quoted picture. The green leaves have grown significantly, and there are small white flower buds about to blossom.
April 24, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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I can't pretend I relished setting my alarm for 5am (don't think I've done that since my convent days!) but leading a quiet and gentle dawn service with 5 faithful early birds ended up being the highlight of my first triduum as a deacon. Alleluia, Christ is risen!
A church, with plain white walls and windows, view looking towards the altar covered with a gold cloth. There are a number of candles around the altar, with a stand in front of the altar with a lit paschal candle. Above the altar, on the wall, is affixed a large cross.
April 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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An argument against monoculture lawns:
A slightly overgrown lawn, pictured from a low angle, with a concrete path running along the right hand edge. The front and right of the lawn is covered in small blue forget-me-not flowers, bright yellow dandelions, and a number of leaves from other types of plant are also visible throughout the grass.
April 8, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Ora pro me, and message me your address if you'd like a physical copy!
An ember card, asking prayers for my ordination. At the top of the card there is a picture of sheaves of wheat and two roses. The text reads 'Please pray for all those to be ordained this Petertide, among them Sian Clare Parker to be ordained priest by Mary, Bishop of Llandaff, in Llandaff Cathedral on Saturday the 28th of June 2025. Please pray also for Ellie and Hannah-Maria, the Revd Canon Andrew Sully, and the people of the West Cardiff Ministry Area among whom Sian will continue to serve as Assistant Curate' An ember card, asking prayers for my ordination. At the top of the card there is a picture of sheaves of wheat and two roses. The text reads 'Os gwelwch yn dda, a wnewch chi weddio dros y rhai hynny sydd i'w hordeinio dros Wyl Pedr eleni, yn eu plith Sian Clare Parker, i'w hordeinio yn Offeiriaid gan Mary, Esgob Llandaf, yn Eglwys Gadeiriol Llandaf Sadwrn 28ain Mehefin 2025. Hweddiwch hefyd dros Ellie a Hannah-Maria, y Parch Ganon Andrew Sully, a phobl Ardal Weinidogareth Gorllewin Caerdydd y bydd Sian yn parhau i wasanaethu un eu plith fel Curad Cynorthwyol.'
March 31, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Spending some time in the garden this afternoon. Chaire, kecharitomene...
A small violet in the midst of some undergrowth.
March 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Study crew.
A deep windowsill, on which sit 5 houseplants in pots.
March 22, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Some very exciting post today - thank you, @padrewill.wales!
Front view of a book, 'Mary, Untier of Knots: A modern novena for catholics, Anglicans, and all kinds of seekers' by William Ingle-Gillis. The book has a blue cover with an illustration of Mary untying knots in a blue ribbon. Underneath is a second book, 'Praying the Anglican Rosary', by the same author.
March 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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A still from The Office, captioned 'I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them'
March 1, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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I may also try to revive the 'no screen time while eating' deal, hoping my daughter's anger at the lack of Miss Rachel can be outweighed by her greed for some tasty raisins.
Diplomats may also try to revive the minerals deal, hoping Trump's anger at Zelensky can be outweighed by his greed for Ukraine's resources.
March 1, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Vicarage veg 2k25 update: the first veg patch has been prepped!
A rectangle of cardboard and dug-out soil, soon to become a veg patch, in the middle of a lawn.
February 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Interesting definition of 'top' there...
A phone notification saying 'top stories: Mummy Pig announces pregnancy on Good Morning Britain', accompanied by a photo of Peppa Pig.
February 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM