The Queen’s Carol – Once in Royal David’s City

The Queen sang the first verse of a carol at our candlelit service tonight. I hope you enjoy her singing. Thankfully I managed to edit out the second verse which had her mother joining in. Incidentally, how does anyone record decent videos in the dark? I couldn’t see a thing through the viewfinder, so apologies [...]

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Some Christmas cheer – Hallelujah!

I saw this for the first time today and thought it might bring some cheer as you contemplate the shopping/baking/wrapping/tidying/sermon prep or whatever it is that looms large in your house at the moment. Pooching about on Youtube I see that there are other versions of this which start right at the beginning but this [...]

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Carol Service Tipples: Spiced Cranapple

This Thursday evening we are hosting the staff and governors of our church school here at the Vicarage for ‘mulled wine and mince pies’. That’s what our invite said, anyway. But as many of the staff have to drive home, we will also be serving a wonderful non-alcoholic alternative, given to me by another Vicar’s-wife-in-training, [...]

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Where the Wild Things are: Best Version

No, this isn’t a review of the new movie, released in the UK today. The film has had a pretty mixed reaction and took a good while to reach this country after its US release. So I reckon you’re far better off just watching the Joker reciting the whole of the book, with dramatic actions [...]

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Advent in the Vicarage

Last night I suddenly realised that today would be 1st December and I was rather unprepared. So the Queen and I had to delve into our cellar to retrieve an old Celebrations chocolate tin and stomp about the garden for a good twig. Then we had to track down a suitable buckety receptacle and scrabble [...]

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