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February 9th, 2006

Campervan vicar

Seeing as we’re talking about experimental mobile ministers here is a story from the Oxford diocesan newspaper ‘the Door’ about a Vicar who goes and sits in his campervan all day. The BBC reported on the story a year or two ago too. The idea is that parishioners come and ‘share tea and religious discussion’.

I’m thinking of setting up a similar service as a cartoonist. I will sit in my campervan all day and wait for people to come and drink tea and discuss pressing issues of the day with me. Unfortunately the van still doesn’t go, so the offer is limited to my driveway. Actually, come to think of it it’s a bit warmer in the house, so we might as well meet there.

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6 Responses to “Campervan vicar”


  1. Kristen (Thoughts from the Bus Stop) says:

    A fab idea – it’d be great to be able to pop out of the office at lunchtime to visit the nearest Rollin’ Rev for a cuppa and a bit of an auld pray.

    In other news, someone from church sent me this story this morning:

    February 9th, 2006 at 1:53 pm
  2. Kyle says:

    And we’ll call you a “Fresh Expression.” So make sure you’re smelling fresh that day.

    February 9th, 2006 at 5:10 pm
  3. Dave says:

    Thanks for the dial-a- prayer link Kristen. I see Richard has blogged about it.

    Kyle. Thankyou – I will indeed.

    February 9th, 2006 at 5:36 pm
  4. Clangnuts says:

    I used to have a bright orange VW camper. Brilliant it was, except the crippling repair costs (£900 for an exhaust!!! – it was a 2.0L aircooled) But still, had some very happy days driving around the country. Always thought of drawing cartoons in it, but mostly ended up drunk instead.

    Tell us more about your Campervan please.

    July 8th, 2006 at 1:20 am
  5. Dave says:

    Clangnuts – I will try to talk about this soon.

    July 8th, 2006 at 9:50 am
  6. Nefertiki says:

    A day late and a penny short again, but never mind. At least I caught up today. It’s the campervan; it’s long been an integral part of your life, it’s taken you so many places — the post office, London, British piers, and many other off-main-road, forgotten or imaginary places.

    And now it seems a whole new generation, or at least set of readers has become interested in it. Surely it deserves special attention, not only to its innards, something like a to-do note of it’s own. Or, what I’m really getting to (has anybody guessed yet) is a book of its own.

    I mean that when you get around to writing your memoirs you could do it from the point of view of the campervan! Or, as many authors have given personalities to inanimate objects like helicopters and been quite successful at it, you could write about the campervan’s adventures..

    Of course I have other ideas about it, but as you may (or may not) be writing about the famous campervan you will have your own great ideas.

    July 9th, 2006 at 5:12 pm