Andrew Dotchin (tssf) he/they
@thedottyrev.bsky.social
Born UK 🇬🇧 Baptised Malta 🇲🇹 Ordained South Africa 🇿🇦 Home in Suffolk. Retired Vicar, Franciscan Tertiary, Chaplain to anything with a badge
🏳️🌈Love💝Wins🏳️⚧️
🏳️🌈Love💝Wins🏳️⚧️
That is so very sad.
I’ve always found it difficult when I’ve been in a parish which finds it difficult to only open its doors for events.
Or worse closes them when people are inside cleaning and arranging in case they might be disturbed…
I can understand Jesus flipping tables….
I’ve always found it difficult when I’ve been in a parish which finds it difficult to only open its doors for events.
Or worse closes them when people are inside cleaning and arranging in case they might be disturbed…
I can understand Jesus flipping tables….
October 11, 2026 at 2:02 PM
That is so very sad.
I’ve always found it difficult when I’ve been in a parish which finds it difficult to only open its doors for events.
Or worse closes them when people are inside cleaning and arranging in case they might be disturbed…
I can understand Jesus flipping tables….
I’ve always found it difficult when I’ve been in a parish which finds it difficult to only open its doors for events.
Or worse closes them when people are inside cleaning and arranging in case they might be disturbed…
I can understand Jesus flipping tables….
Off to The Smoke for the service @salvationarmyuk.bsky.social Oxford St to launch @nationalhcaw.bsky.social week
Which is why weekdays next week #PauseForThought on @suffolksound.bsky.social with @robdunger.bsky.social will be all about the things we could all agree to ‘hate’
Tune in after 7.30am
Which is why weekdays next week #PauseForThought on @suffolksound.bsky.social with @robdunger.bsky.social will be all about the things we could all agree to ‘hate’
Tune in after 7.30am
October 11, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Off to The Smoke for the service @salvationarmyuk.bsky.social Oxford St to launch @nationalhcaw.bsky.social week
Which is why weekdays next week #PauseForThought on @suffolksound.bsky.social with @robdunger.bsky.social will be all about the things we could all agree to ‘hate’
Tune in after 7.30am
Which is why weekdays next week #PauseForThought on @suffolksound.bsky.social with @robdunger.bsky.social will be all about the things we could all agree to ‘hate’
Tune in after 7.30am
A short diversion from reading Regency Novels leads me to the seaside with a Belgian friend ….
‘There was one very important person (in his own estimation at least) staying at the Jolly Roger. Hercule Poirot’
‘There was one very important person (in his own estimation at least) staying at the Jolly Roger. Hercule Poirot’
October 11, 2026 at 12:06 PM
A short diversion from reading Regency Novels leads me to the seaside with a Belgian friend ….
‘There was one very important person (in his own estimation at least) staying at the Jolly Roger. Hercule Poirot’
‘There was one very important person (in his own estimation at least) staying at the Jolly Roger. Hercule Poirot’
#BlackHistoryMonth
Black heroes who have touched my life and brought me hope and joy
#5 Rhal Ssan
Journalist and Hangliding pilot who 'sat lightly on worldly things’ and so cared for the whole Earth.
Rhal taught me that the more things I held on to the more I was weighed down
Fly High brother
Black heroes who have touched my life and brought me hope and joy
#5 Rhal Ssan
Journalist and Hangliding pilot who 'sat lightly on worldly things’ and so cared for the whole Earth.
Rhal taught me that the more things I held on to the more I was weighed down
Fly High brother
October 11, 2026 at 11:19 AM
#BlackHistoryMonth
Black heroes who have touched my life and brought me hope and joy
#5 Rhal Ssan
Journalist and Hangliding pilot who 'sat lightly on worldly things’ and so cared for the whole Earth.
Rhal taught me that the more things I held on to the more I was weighed down
Fly High brother
Black heroes who have touched my life and brought me hope and joy
#5 Rhal Ssan
Journalist and Hangliding pilot who 'sat lightly on worldly things’ and so cared for the whole Earth.
Rhal taught me that the more things I held on to the more I was weighed down
Fly High brother
#ToPonder
The sea has never been friendly to man.
At most, it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
(Joseph Conrad - David Rossi in Criminal Minds)
The sea has never been friendly to man.
At most, it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
(Joseph Conrad - David Rossi in Criminal Minds)
October 11, 2026 at 11:11 AM
#ToPonder
The sea has never been friendly to man.
At most, it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
(Joseph Conrad - David Rossi in Criminal Minds)
The sea has never been friendly to man.
At most, it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
(Joseph Conrad - David Rossi in Criminal Minds)
#ToPray ✝️⚓️ with @amygrantofficial.bsky.social
Father, blessed Father
it's morning again…
continue Your plan
I know together we can climb
mountains in the sky
No one can stop us
when I'm standing by your side
When trouble's knocking here again
I’ll tell him Jesus has my hand
He'll walk me through
Father, blessed Father
it's morning again…
continue Your plan
I know together we can climb
mountains in the sky
No one can stop us
when I'm standing by your side
When trouble's knocking here again
I’ll tell him Jesus has my hand
He'll walk me through
October 11, 2026 at 10:58 AM
#ToPray ✝️⚓️ with @amygrantofficial.bsky.social
Father, blessed Father
it's morning again…
continue Your plan
I know together we can climb
mountains in the sky
No one can stop us
when I'm standing by your side
When trouble's knocking here again
I’ll tell him Jesus has my hand
He'll walk me through
Father, blessed Father
it's morning again…
continue Your plan
I know together we can climb
mountains in the sky
No one can stop us
when I'm standing by your side
When trouble's knocking here again
I’ll tell him Jesus has my hand
He'll walk me through
#txt4today ✝️⚓️
When the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing a wedding robe.
(Matthew 22v11)
Everyone is welcome but only one person can be the host.
(Andrew Dotchin)
When the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing a wedding robe.
(Matthew 22v11)
Everyone is welcome but only one person can be the host.
(Andrew Dotchin)
October 11, 2026 at 9:16 AM
#txt4today ✝️⚓️
When the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing a wedding robe.
(Matthew 22v11)
Everyone is welcome but only one person can be the host.
(Andrew Dotchin)
When the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing a wedding robe.
(Matthew 22v11)
Everyone is welcome but only one person can be the host.
(Andrew Dotchin)
New T-shirt to wear to church on a sunny Sunday.
Does this mean I…
a) Love the music of @howardgoodall.bsky.social
b) Know a bit of Biblical Latin
c) Am a fan of Mr Bean
d) Have visited the ‘Fairyland’ exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery
e) All of the above 😉😀
Does this mean I…
a) Love the music of @howardgoodall.bsky.social
b) Know a bit of Biblical Latin
c) Am a fan of Mr Bean
d) Have visited the ‘Fairyland’ exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery
e) All of the above 😉😀
October 11, 2026 at 8:17 AM
New T-shirt to wear to church on a sunny Sunday.
Does this mean I…
a) Love the music of @howardgoodall.bsky.social
b) Know a bit of Biblical Latin
c) Am a fan of Mr Bean
d) Have visited the ‘Fairyland’ exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery
e) All of the above 😉😀
Does this mean I…
a) Love the music of @howardgoodall.bsky.social
b) Know a bit of Biblical Latin
c) Am a fan of Mr Bean
d) Have visited the ‘Fairyland’ exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery
e) All of the above 😉😀
October 10, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Yes I have changed my pronouns just a little.
Mostly because I’m absolutely fed up with fragile masculinity and all the pain and abuse it brings with it.
This is not where I choose to live.
Mostly because I’m absolutely fed up with fragile masculinity and all the pain and abuse it brings with it.
This is not where I choose to live.
October 10, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Yes I have changed my pronouns just a little.
Mostly because I’m absolutely fed up with fragile masculinity and all the pain and abuse it brings with it.
This is not where I choose to live.
Mostly because I’m absolutely fed up with fragile masculinity and all the pain and abuse it brings with it.
This is not where I choose to live.
#ToPray ✝️⚓️
In love, this tree is rooted and grounded Fed by the earth. watered by the sky
God's delight growing deep and high
Flying like a bird. fruiting like a tree
Spirit with us eternally
Dave the sapling:
Planted at Boughton in thanks for their hosting of @greenbeltfestival.bsky.social
In love, this tree is rooted and grounded Fed by the earth. watered by the sky
God's delight growing deep and high
Flying like a bird. fruiting like a tree
Spirit with us eternally
Dave the sapling:
Planted at Boughton in thanks for their hosting of @greenbeltfestival.bsky.social
October 10, 2026 at 12:05 PM
#ToPray ✝️⚓️
In love, this tree is rooted and grounded Fed by the earth. watered by the sky
God's delight growing deep and high
Flying like a bird. fruiting like a tree
Spirit with us eternally
Dave the sapling:
Planted at Boughton in thanks for their hosting of @greenbeltfestival.bsky.social
In love, this tree is rooted and grounded Fed by the earth. watered by the sky
God's delight growing deep and high
Flying like a bird. fruiting like a tree
Spirit with us eternally
Dave the sapling:
Planted at Boughton in thanks for their hosting of @greenbeltfestival.bsky.social
#txt4today ✝️⚓️
When they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they would not believe it.
(Mark 16v11)
Believing is not seeing.
(Andrew Dotchin)
When they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they would not believe it.
(Mark 16v11)
Believing is not seeing.
(Andrew Dotchin)
October 10, 2026 at 12:00 PM
#txt4today ✝️⚓️
When they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they would not believe it.
(Mark 16v11)
Believing is not seeing.
(Andrew Dotchin)
When they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they would not believe it.
(Mark 16v11)
Believing is not seeing.
(Andrew Dotchin)
#BlackHistoryMonth
A selection of Black heroes who have touched my life and brought me hope and joy
#4 Rev Wilda Gafney
Womanist theologian and fierce proponent of the Bible being taken seriously.
Determined to make the voice of women heard.
@wilgafney.bsky.social
A selection of Black heroes who have touched my life and brought me hope and joy
#4 Rev Wilda Gafney
Womanist theologian and fierce proponent of the Bible being taken seriously.
Determined to make the voice of women heard.
@wilgafney.bsky.social
October 10, 2026 at 11:44 AM
#BlackHistoryMonth
A selection of Black heroes who have touched my life and brought me hope and joy
#4 Rev Wilda Gafney
Womanist theologian and fierce proponent of the Bible being taken seriously.
Determined to make the voice of women heard.
@wilgafney.bsky.social
A selection of Black heroes who have touched my life and brought me hope and joy
#4 Rev Wilda Gafney
Womanist theologian and fierce proponent of the Bible being taken seriously.
Determined to make the voice of women heard.
@wilgafney.bsky.social
#SaturdaySaying with Dolly
Don't get so busy making a living
that you forget to make a life.
(Dolly Parton)
Don't get so busy making a living
that you forget to make a life.
(Dolly Parton)
October 10, 2026 at 11:36 AM
#SaturdaySaying with Dolly
Don't get so busy making a living
that you forget to make a life.
(Dolly Parton)
Don't get so busy making a living
that you forget to make a life.
(Dolly Parton)
Today the lovely people at @waitrose3.bsky.social turn the Renfrew Road Community Pantry into a vegetable stall 🍄🟫 🥦🥬🫑🥒🥔 and also add some fresh bread 🥖
Please take as much as you need as everything needs to go by 5pm tonight
#TummiesNotLandfill
Please take as much as you need as everything needs to go by 5pm tonight
#TummiesNotLandfill
October 10, 2026 at 7:33 AM
Today the lovely people at @waitrose3.bsky.social turn the Renfrew Road Community Pantry into a vegetable stall 🍄🟫 🥦🥬🫑🥒🥔 and also add some fresh bread 🥖
Please take as much as you need as everything needs to go by 5pm tonight
#TummiesNotLandfill
Please take as much as you need as everything needs to go by 5pm tonight
#TummiesNotLandfill
October 9, 2026 at 8:32 PM
#BlackHistoryMonth
A selection of Black heroes who have touched my life and brought me hope and joy.
#3 Desmond Mpilo Tutu
Archbishop of Cape Town who wept with those broken by Apartheid and helped a new nation be born.
Desmond taught me to smile in the darkness and become a prisoner of hope.
A selection of Black heroes who have touched my life and brought me hope and joy.
#3 Desmond Mpilo Tutu
Archbishop of Cape Town who wept with those broken by Apartheid and helped a new nation be born.
Desmond taught me to smile in the darkness and become a prisoner of hope.
October 9, 2026 at 2:42 PM
#BlackHistoryMonth
A selection of Black heroes who have touched my life and brought me hope and joy.
#3 Desmond Mpilo Tutu
Archbishop of Cape Town who wept with those broken by Apartheid and helped a new nation be born.
Desmond taught me to smile in the darkness and become a prisoner of hope.
A selection of Black heroes who have touched my life and brought me hope and joy.
#3 Desmond Mpilo Tutu
Archbishop of Cape Town who wept with those broken by Apartheid and helped a new nation be born.
Desmond taught me to smile in the darkness and become a prisoner of hope.
#ToPonder
We’re born alone,
we live alone,
we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
(Orson Welles - David Rossi in Criminal Minds)
Cherish your friends.
They hold who you are in their hands.
(Andrew Dotchin)
We’re born alone,
we live alone,
we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
(Orson Welles - David Rossi in Criminal Minds)
Cherish your friends.
They hold who you are in their hands.
(Andrew Dotchin)
October 9, 2026 at 2:29 PM
#ToPonder
We’re born alone,
we live alone,
we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
(Orson Welles - David Rossi in Criminal Minds)
Cherish your friends.
They hold who you are in their hands.
(Andrew Dotchin)
We’re born alone,
we live alone,
we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
(Orson Welles - David Rossi in Criminal Minds)
Cherish your friends.
They hold who you are in their hands.
(Andrew Dotchin)
Hurry, hurry, hurry!
Fresh from the fridges at Bookers and straight to the Renfrew Road Community Pantry.
Oodles of lovely food which is dated today so has to go….
I’m sure we can lots of lovely people out there who can help us that #TummiesNotLandfill is the best way to go
Fresh from the fridges at Bookers and straight to the Renfrew Road Community Pantry.
Oodles of lovely food which is dated today so has to go….
I’m sure we can lots of lovely people out there who can help us that #TummiesNotLandfill is the best way to go
October 9, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Hurry, hurry, hurry!
Fresh from the fridges at Bookers and straight to the Renfrew Road Community Pantry.
Oodles of lovely food which is dated today so has to go….
I’m sure we can lots of lovely people out there who can help us that #TummiesNotLandfill is the best way to go
Fresh from the fridges at Bookers and straight to the Renfrew Road Community Pantry.
Oodles of lovely food which is dated today so has to go….
I’m sure we can lots of lovely people out there who can help us that #TummiesNotLandfill is the best way to go
#ToPray ✝️⚓️ with @amygrantofficial.bsky.social
Love to me was just a word in a song
That had been way over used
But you gave love a meaning
So I’ve joined in the singing
That's why I want to spread the news
(Amy Grant - What a Difference You've Made)
youtu.be/Nn2zIYJPaAg?...
Love to me was just a word in a song
That had been way over used
But you gave love a meaning
So I’ve joined in the singing
That's why I want to spread the news
(Amy Grant - What a Difference You've Made)
youtu.be/Nn2zIYJPaAg?...
October 9, 2026 at 12:09 PM
#ToPray ✝️⚓️ with @amygrantofficial.bsky.social
Love to me was just a word in a song
That had been way over used
But you gave love a meaning
So I’ve joined in the singing
That's why I want to spread the news
(Amy Grant - What a Difference You've Made)
youtu.be/Nn2zIYJPaAg?...
Love to me was just a word in a song
That had been way over used
But you gave love a meaning
So I’ve joined in the singing
That's why I want to spread the news
(Amy Grant - What a Difference You've Made)
youtu.be/Nn2zIYJPaAg?...
#txt4today ✝️⚓️
The natives showed us unusual kindness.
(Acts 28v2)
Be more Malta! 🇲🇹
P.S. and kindness is more than a glass 🍺 of Cisk with a goat’s cheese pastizzi but it is a very very good place to start @visitmalta.bsky.social
The natives showed us unusual kindness.
(Acts 28v2)
Be more Malta! 🇲🇹
P.S. and kindness is more than a glass 🍺 of Cisk with a goat’s cheese pastizzi but it is a very very good place to start @visitmalta.bsky.social
October 9, 2026 at 11:34 AM
#txt4today ✝️⚓️
The natives showed us unusual kindness.
(Acts 28v2)
Be more Malta! 🇲🇹
P.S. and kindness is more than a glass 🍺 of Cisk with a goat’s cheese pastizzi but it is a very very good place to start @visitmalta.bsky.social
The natives showed us unusual kindness.
(Acts 28v2)
Be more Malta! 🇲🇹
P.S. and kindness is more than a glass 🍺 of Cisk with a goat’s cheese pastizzi but it is a very very good place to start @visitmalta.bsky.social
Very late night #LastLaugh
I was bored so I swapped all the sweets into different wrappers.
My wife wasn't amused.
She got her Snickers in a Twix…..
I was bored so I swapped all the sweets into different wrappers.
My wife wasn't amused.
She got her Snickers in a Twix…..
October 8, 2026 at 11:14 PM
Very late night #LastLaugh
I was bored so I swapped all the sweets into different wrappers.
My wife wasn't amused.
She got her Snickers in a Twix…..
I was bored so I swapped all the sweets into different wrappers.
My wife wasn't amused.
She got her Snickers in a Twix…..
…but the deepest moment for me was the memory of Brianna Ghey. No portrait but a reminder to continue to protest.
Aluta Continua ✊🏾
Aluta Continua ✊🏾
October 8, 2026 at 9:07 PM
…but the deepest moment for me was the memory of Brianna Ghey. No portrait but a reminder to continue to protest.
Aluta Continua ✊🏾
Aluta Continua ✊🏾
…and joy of joys to find your portrait, as well as to meet in person, alongside the portrait of the famous actor Liz Carr and her partner Jo Church.
Filled up to overflowing. 💝
Filled up to overflowing. 💝
October 8, 2026 at 9:00 PM
…and joy of joys to find your portrait, as well as to meet in person, alongside the portrait of the famous actor Liz Carr and her partner Jo Church.
Filled up to overflowing. 💝
Filled up to overflowing. 💝
…And the greatest of these is love 💝
Absolutely overwhelmed to be at the opening of ‘Fairyland’ at #NationalPortraitGallery
Tim Walker has planted a garden that seems like a collection of still life’s but each portrait proclaims new life 💝
A must see
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Love💝Wins🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Absolutely overwhelmed to be at the opening of ‘Fairyland’ at #NationalPortraitGallery
Tim Walker has planted a garden that seems like a collection of still life’s but each portrait proclaims new life 💝
A must see
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Love💝Wins🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
October 8, 2026 at 8:49 PM
…And the greatest of these is love 💝
Absolutely overwhelmed to be at the opening of ‘Fairyland’ at #NationalPortraitGallery
Tim Walker has planted a garden that seems like a collection of still life’s but each portrait proclaims new life 💝
A must see
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Love💝Wins🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Absolutely overwhelmed to be at the opening of ‘Fairyland’ at #NationalPortraitGallery
Tim Walker has planted a garden that seems like a collection of still life’s but each portrait proclaims new life 💝
A must see
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Love💝Wins🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈