I'm not sure how all this goes, so bear with me. This is my first foray into social networking, and if you think I'm quiet and unassuming here, you should see me in real life (or "meatspace" as the kids call it).

But I wanted to thank you all for your invitations to be your friends. Fortunately, you didn't see me curl in my chair at the flood of e-mailed invites. Well, there were six of them, but compared to my spam list, that's rather a lot.

So as the vicar…