Edited by Patricia Stammers, Monday, 1 Apr 2013, 09:25
Went to a carol service last night. The singing was accompanied by a brass band.
Who was Good King Wenceslas and what is the Feast of Stephen? Why don't I do interesting things like watching flocks nowadays?
The stable, in the nativity story was always a problem to visualise. There was, is, the detached, rickety Italian Renaissance version with fluttering ribbons and glossy oxen. Then there's the stable with carved classical columns and flower arrangements but the stable which most accords with biblical description was found in Bages, Roussillon South of France, 2002 a few days before Christmas.
The old village houses are terraced and several storeys high. One of them was open on the ground floor. Inside there was a wooden manger, iron tethering rings and a door to the house. A builder's van was parked outside and a garage/utility room conversion job was imminent!
Carolling
Went to a carol service last night. The singing was accompanied by a brass band.
Who was Good King Wenceslas and what is the Feast of Stephen? Why don't I do interesting things like watching flocks nowadays?
The stable, in the nativity story was always a problem to visualise. There was, is, the detached, rickety Italian Renaissance version with fluttering ribbons and glossy oxen. Then there's the stable with carved classical columns and flower arrangements but the stable which most accords with biblical description was found in Bages, Roussillon South of France, 2002 a few days before Christmas.
The old village houses are terraced and several storeys high. One of them was open on the ground floor. Inside there was a wooden manger, iron tethering rings and a door to the house. A builder's van was parked outside and a garage/utility room conversion job was imminent!