Bah Humbug!

One would have thought that at this time of year, the church would allow a certain amount of latitude in Yuletide festivities.

I refer to the attached invitation from our local church for children to "...Come and join in!" with the Xmas nativity play. Now, if you ask my mother and father if they have any children they would say "Yes, two", of which I am one. Therefore, I still consider myself to be a child and therefore eligible to take part.

As the "invite" said, children were invited to bring their own costume.

So, I turned up in a (rather stretched) Kermit the Frog outfit, left over from an unhappy experience when I was 12!. (See Blog entry of 25th August 2006 - "Is there anything worse than coming fourth?") The vicar strangely, refused to let me in, on the grounds that he considered me to be neither a child, nor dressed in appropriate attire - obviously not having heard of the 'Bethlehem Frog'. As I sadly trudged - OK hopped! - down the church path back to my car, a six year old dressed as an octopus passed me and was welcomed into the church by an effusive vicar.

Double standards or what! *

* Please note - the truth of the above story has been stretched as much as the Kermit costume!!