Happy Christmas!

Hope it's going well for everyone. We had a good midnight mass -- 43 people which was pretty good. Reasonable amount of smoke and not many coughs!

I didn't do computery stuff yesterday so I missed out on the Merry Christmas thing. I should have done it when I was waiting for my parents to get back from their Midnight Mass (which had started 45 mins later than mine) so we could drink GIN and so get in first. I did text people and hope that I hadn't embarrassed anyone who'd left their phone on ( Read more... )

Mmmmmm, we've now had Candlemas and the post I was intending to right about Christmas has not happened.

( So here are some thoughts, on mainly relgious matters and as much for my memory as anything )

Now Chapel has always been more Christmassy than I would like at the Carol Service but I'd allowed myself to hope this year as it was being acvertised as Advent Carols (and not as Christmas Songs of Praise). The Chaplain had admitted on Friday that it was rather more Christmassy than that and that he had been unable to bring himself to write that ( Read more... )