The "children" have been busy.......or, more accurately, should that be ....the "children" will soon be busy?.......making palm crosses for Palm Sunday. So why, I hear you ask, is there a picture here with Gracie's cakes plus some "infestations" of the rodent kind in the form of Sepp, Snowy and "Nunc Dimittis? All will be revealed...............read on..................
I have been busy in my mind trying to think of something "a little different" for this year's Palm Sunday page. I was therefore very inspired by a recent blog I found to be linking to our home page ie Gadget Vicar blog where a group of pastors are cited to have met in Starbucks for a bible study. I've long heard how church folk have sometimes decided to meet in a secular place of gathering like, for example, a pub........but Starbucks was kind of novel. However I am sad to report that Daffodil Green is but a small village with a small population so we doubt that Starbucks have yet to hear about the idyllic little place let alone set up shop there. However Daffodil Green DOES have its' own tearooms in the form of Aunt Sal's Tearooms so I thought it would be an interesting idea to have the children (under supervision......well of course!) help the vicar by making some palm crosses out of some palms in readiness for the morning service on Palm Sunday IN Aunt Sal's Tearooms for a change. The advantage of course is..........Archie is a very kind man who is always happy to offer a free cup of tea or drink of juice and a cake to the children!
As you can see above, Ambrose brings the palm leaves along to the tearooms. You may wonder where these "palm leaves" come from. Well they are actually cut from real palm crosses which Andrew and I will have received from a previous year's Palm Sunday service. I love the fact that, as these "palm leaves" have been cut from real palm crosses that were distributed in a Palm Sunday service, they have actually been blessed too! I just couldn't resist adding Prince to the "mix" here. Sarah Schiff of Pocket Pets makes such splendid cats and dogs and Prince, who was bought from Sarah back last October is such a beautiful and realistic looking yellow labrador he HAS to be shown off regularly!
I will now have to leave you.........but I can tell you that Gracie is keen to have her tambourine with her this Palm Sunday morning.........................................she just LOVES to sing and play her tambourine in church and Palm Sunday will involve a procession too...........................how WILL she cope with the holding of a palm leaf AND her tambourine whilst singing a chorus too.................. However - you will all have to pity ME far more.................I am planning not only to make sure she is hanging on to both tambourine and palm leaf.......but also to negotiate her not insiginficant 14 joints in order to have her stand convincingly too............................wish me luck.......................
Til the next time.......
PS I keep meaning to tell you all that it was I who embroidered that "Jemima Puddleduck" picture on the wall............on 32 count linen.........................not sure my old eyes would cope with that anymore but..... It was Catherine, my sister, who embroidered the little house picture on the left hand wall........
They might need to soften the palms with water when they start making the crosses. Last year I helped teach our church children (full size live ones) how to make palm crosses, using the dried palm leaves. I found it so different from the green fresh leaves I had used as a child, because where I grew up, date palms were available, so our crosses were always green and much easier to make.
ReplyDeleteI hope Gracie enjoys the procession this year.
Thanks for that DollMum! I wonder if the cut up pieces of our old palm crosses would soften up enough in water so we could actually have the crosses made in the proper way? That will be fun for the children......I will give it a go and report back..............
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