tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441164155286448763.post8697320714480696438..comments2024-03-25T18:27:37.374+00:00Comments on The Kissed Mouth: 8th December - 'And Lo, the Angel of the Lord Came Upon Them'Kirsty Stonell Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08342964877965021654noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441164155286448763.post-33226676814719620262012-12-13T19:46:47.715+00:002012-12-13T19:46:47.715+00:00Lily gets to be a turkey seller on a market this y...Lily gets to be a turkey seller on a market this year in the school play. It isn't a straight forward nativity, it has some sort of time travelling jigsaw in it. Or something.<br /><br />I hadn't considered the weirdness of lambs in December, but it would be up there with snow in the Holy Land. And Jesus being ginger. The Lord does move in mysterious ways...Kirsty Stonell Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08342964877965021654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441164155286448763.post-41849563964642296852012-12-13T15:21:32.255+00:002012-12-13T15:21:32.255+00:00When little, I got told I was going to be the star...When little, I got told I was going to be the star in the nativity. I got all excited about being Mary... I ended up sitting on top of the "stable" in star costume. I didn't get any lines. All I did was sit. And fall off the back of the stable causing a distraction. Ooops. <br /><br />On a not-silly level, I think the sheep metaphor is interesting. I know it is probably partly a product of the time-scale of the Nativity story being portrayed as "all at once" (I figure that the angels announcing things during lambing around March would make sense if it then took nine months to get around to a birth in mid December, and therefore the lambs would be a lot bigger by the time it got to giving them as gifts, rather than as cute fluffy very young lambs.) The HouseCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07783576090040274742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1441164155286448763.post-25540663595949402012-12-09T02:33:36.144+00:002012-12-09T02:33:36.144+00:00That stretch of coast near Hastings is pretty much...That stretch of coast near Hastings is pretty much the same now, but with different sheep. There's a political aspect to this, too, as well as a spiritual one, which is why the sheep are at Hastings and undefended from the wicked French. <br /><br />Lovely angels at the top, and you're absolutely right. The sheep are never impressed.Rhissannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09001501916407616825noreply@blogger.com