We lived a 3 hour drive from my grandparents so when my dad finished work on Christmas Eve we would pack everything into the Piss Puke Blood Guts Shirt and set off for Yorkshire. No motorways back then. Green fields turned moorland until we finally went over the Pennines, Stanage or Holme Moss, and begun the final leg of our journey through soot blackened mill towns reaching my grandparents’ house at around 8pm. At about 9.30 a plethora of cousins and aunties and uncles would turn up an we would set off to go carol singing with other members of the congregation and band from their local chapel. Along the route we would be greeted with mince pies, slices of Christmas cake and chunks of cheese even the odd glass of Sherry or mulled wine for the adults. We belted out all the old traditional carols, my favourites being While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night which we sung to Cranbrook (Ilkley Moor) and also Christians Awake. We naturally sang O Come All ye Faithful but only after midnight were we allowed to sing the final verse of Yea Lord we Greet Thee. Shortly after midnight we called it a day. Many of the adults slightly ‘merry’ from a surfeit of Sherry!
()buy it now:Piss Puke Blood Guts Shirt
Vacations are for storm chasin’ art shirt
California Drivers License Olivia Rodrigo Hoodie shirt
Gm Bobby Fischer Grand Master Shirt
There’s Always An Iowa Connection Shirt
Well that escalated quickly shirt
homepage: gearbloom
No comments:
Post a Comment