Today was the day….the ladies of the flower team rolled up their and did Christmas. It’s the carol service tomorrow and the church will be be beautifully decked out. A mountain of greenery had been clipped from gardens, hedgerows and in my case a pub (with permission of course) and the lovely holly in the churchyard gave us load of berries to play with. The only things we bought were the red carnations, some eucalyptus and a bunch of anastasia. Not bad to fill a church.
Enid set about the window by the door. She’d decided on a parallel arrangement before we started having won some gorgeous white amarylis at the flower club on Monday – very handy….and a very beautiful result. Even my son approved and believe me it isn’t easy to get the seal of
approval from him. In fact it isn’t easy to even get him to look.
Annette and Barbara’s windows were lovely too and with their allocation from the carnations they’d added their own little bits of gold and sparkle so that tomorrow evening when all the candles are lit for the carol service the whole church will twinkle in the glow.
And we have a new addition to the team – another Margaret. Which makes life really complicated. I’m a Margaret, we already had a Margaret and now we have a new Margaret…. in a room where there are only 7 women and 3 of them answer to Margaret I can tell you it gets tricky.
Here’s our latest Margaret’s window:
Our 1st Margaret did the altar today but she came along after we’d been there this morning – so pictures tomorrow, and with the candles lit. Should look wonderful.
I had the top of a disused fireplace above a window but way up – apparently I’m young (well that makes a change!) so able to scale the heights. It’s a fairly traditional arrangement and I used lots of sprakly glitter spray which hopefully will show up tomorrow night.
Here’s where we are at Fairburn near Castleford in West Yorkshire : http://www.achurchnearyou.com/fairburn/. If you know how to find the RSPB reserve at Fairburng Ings we are just up the road, and we’d love to see you – our churchwarden has been working like mad and the statues are ready to go into the nativity scene. The candles are ready to light and mince pies are being made in a dozen kitchens round about to go with the mulled wine. We start at 7.30 tomorrow evening (Thursday 15th December) and I know from only having been at this church for a little over a year that you’ll get a warm welcome.
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