I don't want to cause a panic, but do you realise that it is only a month to Christmas Day?
Ho! Ho! Ho! The Christmas season is rapidly approaching, and with it all the commercialism of turkey and tinsel, Santa Clauses and reindeer etc.etc. It seems months since the first Christmas adverts appeared on the television, and almost as long since we heard the piped Christmas music in the supermarkets.
Soon we will be seeing the harassed faces of mums as they dash around getting those last minute Christmas bits and pieces that they have overlooked in the mad headlong rush. Dads will be no doubt racking their brains as to what they can buy for "the missus" for Christmas, and the children will be demanding the latest "must have" toy/electronic gizmo that has been heavily advertised on television for the last umpteen weeks!
The gentleman below will no doubt be getting some overtime in as he loads his sleigh and sets off on his annual journey.
On December 6th I am playing the organ for the graduation ceremony for Bradford College in St George's Hall.
I have a wedding to play for at Hazlemere Castle Tadcaster on Saturday 10th December.
After that I will be up to my ears in the usual merry round of last minute rehearsals for Christmas Concerts which my Male Voice Choir will be performing. As well as singing at the Manorlands Festival of Lights on Sunday 11th December at 4.00 pm, they are singing a Christmas Concert the following evening in Allerton.
I am involved in practices for the Nativity play at one of the local schools, as well as four performances! Leading a Carol Sing in Bingley Market Square on Sat 17th December between 10.00 & 10.30. Taking our youngest daughter and her husband to Manchester Airport, (they fly out to Jamaica for a belated honeymoon), practices of carols for the usual Festival of Lessons and Carols, a Christingle Service, Midnight Eucharist and Christmas Day Communion.
Roll on December 28th when we escape for a couple of days relative peace and quiet at the King's Head Masham!
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