Christmas and New Year greetings
Just to wish people a happy festive period (a tad late, admittedly) and a prosperous 2017. Christmas was frenetic, and I could have booked myself five times for Midnight and Christmas Day. Carol services took up all of Advent except Advent 2. Being a freelance is always feast or famine. I have finalised my letter to any parish which intends to treat me as an employee, and if you wish to see it, please comment here and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. But the one which was obdurate has now managed to persuade their retired choir director to return, presumably because their other deputies also said "no" to the Vicar, whose position it is to follow the Diocesan employee's advice uncritically. Enough. Enjoy 2017 with all the challenges and possibilities it will offer. Philip Christmas 2012 - the begonias moaned when they saw the tree had been decorated.