At the all age service on Sunday past, the task I set myself was to reword the 12 days of Christmas with some more explicitly Biblical material than the original. The idea being that the song introduces not just the themes of the original Christmas story, but also some of the things that the gospels explain Jesus went on to do in His earthly life. All with some dressing up, dashing round the Church getting some Bible readings, a bit of comedy with a powerpoint, etc. Hopefully

On the last day of term, I had to deliver an address for the S2 yeargroup at Millburn Academy. Devoid of other ideas, and in need of something Christmassy, engaging and short; I opted to write a poem. It seemed to go down well - for which I'm thankful because doing poetry in front of people is difficult even if those people are expecting to have poetry done to them... Anyway here's the piece. Enjoy! A long time ago in a galaxy quite close to here Begins a story we celebrate e