Church on Sunday!

Blob is not a Church goer. She is not particularly keen on organised faiths or the attempt at psychological control of congregations by the church.

However she is a Scout Leader and had to help this morning with the Rememberance Parade at St Martins in Epsom.

She hasn't been to church for some years, not since a friends wedding, and in that particular instance it was bearable because the music included Muppet Show tunes.

This time it was all very different:

• No Muppet Show tunes, but there were dreary hymns to dreary tunes. (tune is probably an exaggeration).



• There was a sermon that referred to the X factor. (No idea why except the vicar was trying to keep 'down with the kids')



• The Lords Prayer has changed since Blob last said it.



• At one point people tried to shake her hand - thank fully the people concerned were people who knew her, so they backed off respectfully after correctly interpreting her expression.

Was there anything about the whole experience that she enjoyed?

• Apparently, singing the National Anthem was her favourite bit because she knows the tune and could sing along.

Will she be going again?

• Not if she has any say in it, however, if not enough Scout Leaders volunteer for the next parade, she may have no choice.



• A Christmas Carol service would probably be OK, because she knows the tunes and can sing all the Carols.

All in all, not a particulary enjoyable experience.

Bob