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Categories: unmentionable, christmas, shopping
Tags: carols
Date: 24 December 2008 09:15:16
Behold the Angel of the Lord, pine cone style. I got ever so slightly carried away the other day during my tree painting session. As you can see, PC Angel has joined the shepherds - and a rather scarey looking sheep - in the Miffy nativity scene. Ms Miffy has vetoed my plea for biblical accuracy and the addition of sundry other angelic beings of a horticultural persuasion. Spoilsport.
At Newchurch the other night, I thoroughly embarrassed myself during 'Gabriel's Message.' I'm used to it being sung by choir only, not congregation. Hence the inevitable 'mistake' during the first refrain. I didn't do it on purpose, honest!
I discovered that in some places when a service is billed as 'Carols by Candlelight,' it means just that. All the way through. None of this wuss like blowing them out after a couple of verses of 'Once in Royal...' Nursing your candle on its cardboard holder in one hand whilst balancing your songsheet in the other concentrates the mind wonderfully. And I never before realised just how long the Magnificat is when it's sung and you are trying to perfom the delicate operation of twiddling your candle upwards to gain a little more length without setting your neighbour on fire in the process!