Christmas is hotting up, we put up the Christmas tree today, or rather G and D did. Present residents have amazing abilities:G has a passion for Xmas trees, and he not only carried one bodily all the way from Hilliers, getting scratched raw in the process, he bought a special stand thing. He produced beautiful ornaments that he has collected and keeps carefully in little boxes in his room. It stands perfectly straight and bears no resemblance to the wobbly garish thing we usually have. Also he provided mulled wine and mince pies and we all had a good time this Sunday afternoon.
I have just discovered a terrible bit of my double booking at the Meeting House. There is a Christmas party for the family group on the same day as forty twelve year olds come with their RE teacher from a local school to learn about Quakers. So some of us will be trying to talk about the Inner Light surrounded by jelly and balloons.