snow and weddings

The answer is - Tony's contribution began with 'especially when you're in it'. Well done if you guessed!

At after school club today, we were looking at the story of the Wedding Feast at Cana (the one where Jesus turned the water into wine, after a nudge from his mother). We made napkins and place cards, then dressed up and acted out a wedding. (It's important to ask the legal questions, like 'have you been married before? As the bridegroom was six years old it wasn't likely to be a problem). Then instead of just sitting down to blackcurrant juice and toast as usual, we had the wedding banquet with some spectacular drinks.

We had cocktails. Not alcoholic ones, I must add. We didn't even use Coke, as I didn't want anyone stuck to the ceiling. But we had almost any combination of blackcurrant, orange juice, raspberry fizz and lemonade, complete with fruit and straws. (But not cocktail sticks, just in case.) We gave out heart shaped jelly sweet and marshmallows, and the children had the brilliant idea of putting them on the sides of the glasses. And as we did all that, it began to snow.

Ooh! said the children and the dopey authoress. Oh no, said the mothers who had to get children home up wet and slippery hills. Tony came along like the knight in armour he is, and we managed to get everybody ferried off home safely.

Tonight we considered going to a storyelling event. But it's a bitter night out there. Remember what Tony said about staying by the fire?