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curiouswombatI haven't updated properly for over a week - bad wombat!
So - Daughter-dear is home, she looks well, seems to have avoided Fresher's weight gain, and whilst happy to be home misses the new, York, friends. This is good - it just confirms for me that she is happy there, and doing well. It is lovely to have her home, but also lovely to not have to worry about her when she goes back. She is doing well academically, gaining good marks for her essays, and soaking up the lectures like a little sponge.
I must have missed my LJ 2 year anniversary, because I remember that my first entry was about the Church Nativity Service, and we had this year's on Sunday.
As usual it went well, everyone said 'What a lovely service,' - and as usual that was only what could be seen from the congregation! In fact 18 year old Slightly-Goth niece arrived just nano-seconds before the minister came in, and she was doing one of the readings, and the 18 year old who was to be Joseph had been at a party the night before, and was rather hung-over. He still managed to get to church, and get his costume on, but during the first carol had to dash out to be sick!
Realising what was happening, one of the men in the congregation went to check on him - and when we first started to tell the story of Gabriel appearing to Mary, as I looked down from the sanctuary there was no 'Joseph' in Church! But during the carol before he was to take his place in the tableau a figure came in, in the costume, and I realised that it was Kevin, the man who had gone to check on Max - he had taken over!
It was absolutely fine - he is a tall man in his early forties, and looked fine behind my 15 year old 'Mary' - and as it was a tableau rather than a spoken play, very few people actually twigged that the 'Joseph' in front of them was not the one who had come into Church in the costume 15 minutes earlier! Max made it in to sit and watch the rest of the service.
None of the photos I took are any good - I had knocked my camera off 'automatic' onto 'manual' without noticing, and they were all out of focus. I will see if I can get copies from someone - my friend Alison was taking some - she ended up being the only member of her family not in the tableau as one of her daughters was an angel, the other a shepherd, and her husband is the aforementioned quick-witted Kevin.
I am still at work, all week, and have baking and stuff still to do, presents to wrap, and a chapter of Access All Areas to finish before Christmas Day!
So thanks to everyone who has sent cards and e-cards (Love that cat, 'Tales' - and when I opened it and the sound track started our cat sat bolt upright and gave the computer a 'hard stare'). I apologise for skimming the FL a bit, if I haven't commented where I should please accept apologies!
So - Daughter-dear is home, she looks well, seems to have avoided Fresher's weight gain, and whilst happy to be home misses the new, York, friends. This is good - it just confirms for me that she is happy there, and doing well. It is lovely to have her home, but also lovely to not have to worry about her when she goes back. She is doing well academically, gaining good marks for her essays, and soaking up the lectures like a little sponge.
I must have missed my LJ 2 year anniversary, because I remember that my first entry was about the Church Nativity Service, and we had this year's on Sunday.
As usual it went well, everyone said 'What a lovely service,' - and as usual that was only what could be seen from the congregation! In fact 18 year old Slightly-Goth niece arrived just nano-seconds before the minister came in, and she was doing one of the readings, and the 18 year old who was to be Joseph had been at a party the night before, and was rather hung-over. He still managed to get to church, and get his costume on, but during the first carol had to dash out to be sick!
Realising what was happening, one of the men in the congregation went to check on him - and when we first started to tell the story of Gabriel appearing to Mary, as I looked down from the sanctuary there was no 'Joseph' in Church! But during the carol before he was to take his place in the tableau a figure came in, in the costume, and I realised that it was Kevin, the man who had gone to check on Max - he had taken over!
It was absolutely fine - he is a tall man in his early forties, and looked fine behind my 15 year old 'Mary' - and as it was a tableau rather than a spoken play, very few people actually twigged that the 'Joseph' in front of them was not the one who had come into Church in the costume 15 minutes earlier! Max made it in to sit and watch the rest of the service.
None of the photos I took are any good - I had knocked my camera off 'automatic' onto 'manual' without noticing, and they were all out of focus. I will see if I can get copies from someone - my friend Alison was taking some - she ended up being the only member of her family not in the tableau as one of her daughters was an angel, the other a shepherd, and her husband is the aforementioned quick-witted Kevin.
I am still at work, all week, and have baking and stuff still to do, presents to wrap, and a chapter of Access All Areas to finish before Christmas Day!
So thanks to everyone who has sent cards and e-cards (Love that cat, 'Tales' - and when I opened it and the sound track started our cat sat bolt upright and gave the computer a 'hard stare'). I apologise for skimming the FL a bit, if I haven't commented where I should please accept apologies!
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Date: 19/12/2006 10:52 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 20/12/2006 12:03 am (UTC)Glad things went alright in the end!
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Date: 19/12/2006 12:02 pm (UTC)great icon!
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Date: 19/12/2006 01:21 pm (UTC)I love this icon as well - although I'm not sure where I got it from.
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Date: 19/12/2006 01:12 pm (UTC)I love your story about the Church Nativity Service. It's a good thing Kevin was so quick thinking! :D
K breaks up tomorrow, followed by my husband and son on Friday...so if I'm not around much over the next week or so, that's the reason why! :)
I hope you and your family have a wonderful Christmas and New Year. Thank you for all your support and friendship this year. I really do appreciate it! *hugs*
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Date: 19/12/2006 01:22 pm (UTC)And yes, it is a real relief to actually see her face to face, and know that she really is enjoying life in York.
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Date: 19/12/2006 01:59 pm (UTC)Happy LJ-versary and Merry Christmas!
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Date: 19/12/2006 07:04 pm (UTC)As for Daughter-dear - she seems to continue to evolve easily from small daughter to young teenager, school senior to college student. I am so pleased that I really like the person my daughter is - I think it is the main achievment of parenthood to produce offspring that you like, and I know you agree!
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Date: 19/12/2006 02:27 pm (UTC)Loved the switching out of Joseph - it was just so darling and sweet though I'm sure I should be appalled at a hung over 18yo Joseph. Just can't though.
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Date: 19/12/2006 07:45 pm (UTC)He didn't do the smartest thing in the world, but it wasn't wrong by any means and he will remember that lesson for a good long while.
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Date: 19/12/2006 10:45 pm (UTC)Yep - if he'd been a Methodist he would have to face some awful lectures!
Course the real Joseph probably got himself well and truly drunk when he first realised Mary was pregnant, and it was nothing to do with him....!!
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Date: 19/12/2006 11:01 pm (UTC)Now, as a Methodist, sadly I have to agree with you. I was going to say there are some congregations that wouldn't have made that big a deal out of it, but I can't even convince myself of that.
Just being happy you guys don't have the equivalent of Southern Baptist over there. They manage to take the fun out of everything. :-)
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Date: 20/12/2006 01:40 pm (UTC)Amen to that - you might say!
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Date: 19/12/2006 05:05 pm (UTC)Miss Perfect was sick Sunday, and I was grumpified in many ways, and only the menfolk went to church, so, of course, John Van Eenwyk was preaching.
We tend to do the Nativity stuff at family service on Christmas Eve and on Epiphany, whichever one has fewer reality problems; over the past years the Church has been closed for roof damage, the heating system having died, plumbing problems, and, last Sunday, the word was on Saturday that there might not be service for lack of electricity. All these things (except the last, which was a bad prediction) happened before we called a lesbian vicar, so the aforementioned Bishop can just go read Matthew Mark Luke and John and find out what Christ said about women, and gays, and stoning sinners...
Julia, satanic, indeed.
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Date: 19/12/2006 07:35 pm (UTC)We can sit back, in our little denomination, and watch the Anglicans arguing - although we have not officially accepted gay ministers ourselves. Our individual congregations appoint ministers, and it is up to them to choose a minister that suits them - if his/her sexuality was an issue for that congregation they would presumably appoint a 'straight' person, but I don't think I've ever heard of there being any big rumpus about a minister being accepted or rejected because of sexuality. The spirit of URC compromise!
D-d heard Archbishop Sentamu of York preach last week, she didn't see him, because the Minster was so full, but she says he is a very good preacher!
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Date: 20/12/2006 01:43 pm (UTC)Wasn't it? And it looked fine.
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Date: 20/12/2006 02:17 am (UTC)I'm glad that the service went well, and thank goodness for Kevin's quick-wittedness!
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Date: 20/12/2006 09:38 am (UTC)I don't expect your LJ life to pick up, what with your daughter being home and Christmas looming fast. Real life trumps LJ, and I never expect comments and am always gratified when they happen.
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