David, you remind me of a little "darling" I had in my Sunday School department
about 35 years ago. I eventually worked out that if I kept him busy, I could
control him, so, as he was always the first child to arrive for Sunday School,
I'd set him tasks to help me - like, moving that pile of chairs from here to
there. And then to move them back again! He loved "helping" and never
seemed to realise that most of his tasks were just undoing what he'd already
just done!!
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
--- David Collyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Friends,
> Last Sunday was the "big performance" and it went off like a dream.
> Although I didn't feel particularly nervous or stressed, inevitably I was,
> as proved by the 12 hours' sleep I had yesterday. I haven't done that since
> I was a teenager out on the town! :)
>
> The choir sang like angels, and the audience of about 200 souls was
> suitably impressed. Their were many tears and hair standing up on the back
> of the necks, as well as laughter as I related stories from my childhood in
> Church choirs. The concert demonstrated the development of music within the
> Methodist Church beginning with some Purcell and Haydn and climaxing with a
> couple of those fabulous big "Cliff Barrows-type" arrangements from the
> 1960s.
>
> Many friends and family came up from Melbourne, including old Mrs. Beryl
> VICKERS, who is now pushing 90 and used to tell me off when I was a little
> tacker. In fact she told me that her first memory of me when I was about 5
> years old, was of me standing in her driveway eating orange peel. She told
> me it would kill me, and I replied that it didn't seem to be killing her
> goats (And I thought I was shy :)
>
> I told the audience of the time when I was about 10 years old sitting in
> the 2nd row of the choir in church, and there in front of me were 2 of my
> sisters, 2 of Beryls daughters and about 3 other girls, all sporting 2
> plaits each, very firmly plaited down to their waists and tied with a neat
> ribbon. I very quietly managed to undo each ribbon and tie each girl's
> plait to the girl next to her. made a great screech when they all stood up
> for the next hymn! I reckoned it was a great trick, but I still got a
> hiding afterwards!
>
> The other story I told was of the time the choir was assembled in the
> vestry waiting to enter at the end of the first hymn. The minister had
> already gone in ahead. I spotted in the corner a huge vase of dried
> flowers, most of which were Honesty - you know those see-through leaves? I
> just had time to pick a leaf for each kid on the choir to wear as a monocle
> as we marched in. That wouldn't have been too bad, but as I was the only
> boy, I insisted they we all "goose-step" in! You guessed it - another hiding!
> Love
> David in Ballarat
>
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