Categories: unmentionable, church
Date: 03 January 2010 14:21:47
So, here we are in 2010 - a new decade. How time flies! I was reminded about this in church this morning, while all the children were queueing up for their banners to wave during the final hymn. The last time I wielded one of these (banner, not a child), was during our churches together joint open-air service for the new millennium...nearly ten years ago! It can't be that long, surely? But the calendar (and the mirror) says it is.
Nowadays, my idea of excitement is to spend a happy half hour in Millets during the Christmas rush, checking out their buy one, get one half price offer on 'thermal baselayers,' (sounds so much more glamorous than 'thermal vest and long-johns, doesn't it?). Son (19), was even more excited when I presented him with his charcoal- grey manly- looking combo. May it remain on record that the top half cut a dash in the local nightclub on Christmas eve and likely prevented him from freezing to death afterwards. For those who don't know these things, 'dressing up,' at his age seems to involve subtracting rather than adding layers. And that's just the boys!
Daughter was not as thrilled with her lurid purple floral top, mercifully,they'd run out of bottom halves by the time I got to the shops, so has passed it on to Mum. I think it's rather pretty. It'll come in so useful for when the beloved and I embark on more treks. Mr M has pointed out that should I be unlucky enough to be charged by a bull in the Highlands of Scotland, all I need to do is crouch down and I'll become a dead ringer for a large clump of heather.
