Last night I learned that it was not just any full moon on my birthday, but a rather special one.
Unfortunately the weather did not play along with this and permit me to witness the event, there was unbroken cloud throughout the hours of darkness and some pretty awful weather to boot.
Despite the weather I’m having a fine old time, it was worth making the effort to drive over to Redditch and stay with my friend. I brought all my discarded computer components in varying states of disrepair and by combining these with those he may have available the hope is that we come up with a working machine to take home for my daughter as a sort of Christmas present from him (he is her Godfather too). No doubt there may also be an excursion to te cinema tomorrow, I am hoping to escape “High School Musical 3” in favour of “Madagascar 2” or even “Desperaux”, we shall see.
Although I did not blog about it at the time I have been Carol singing for charity a couple of times with the Lewisham Choral Society. I have also shown Robert, and will share here, something which myself and other “Friends” composed for a bit of fun that I shall be helping sing as entertainment at the Christmas lunch on Sunday afternoon, to be sung to the tune of “Christmas Wonderland”:-
QUAKER WONDERLAND
1. Sleigh-bells ring, are you listening?
In the road all is glistening.
We cheerfully walk but in Meeting don’t talk,
Walking in a Quaker wonderland.
2. Be patterns, be examples
Whilst we’re sewing all our samples,
We stand in the light and try not to fight,
Walking in a Quaker wonderland.
3. All-age worship we can build a snowman,
And pretend that it’s a metaphor
And if you find you want a new committee
We’ll help you find a reason it is for!
4. When it works, ain’t it thrilling,
Though your doubts may be chilling.
We frolic and play in a moderate way,
Walking in a Quaker wonderland.
5. We decide a lot in Local Meeting,
Once we have decided what it’s for.
Everything that’s said will get a minute
Until we haven’t got a minute more!
(Work out how to do a silence here?)
6. Sleigh-bells ring, are you listening?
In the road all is glistening.
We cheerfully walk but in Meeting don’t talk,
Walking in a Quaker wonderland.
1, 2, 4 and 6 are the chorus tune
3 and 5 are the verse tune.
So, as you see, things are getting remarkably festive already, and I guess that’s getting reflected in my blog.
