Sunday 15th December - Advent 3; Joy

This is the Sunday we think about JOY.

I'm always looking for those unexpected joys in unexpected places;

In the church zoom I attend there are hymns and occasionally songs. Today we had one of my absolute favourites, which I have used in many a December class music lesson;

As well as enjoying the hymn I was remembering a brilliant music lesson with one of the most difficult year 2 classes I ever taught...

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Half way through the afternoon I realised that had to get out, even if it was just a walk round the block. The sun was fitful, the wind was determined and cold, but we plugged on, BB  carrying thec oxygen cylinder to make it easier for me. To give the 'expedition' purpose, I wanted to drop a note round to a friend in the next road.

This is what we discovered growing in her flowerbed...

Violets, flowering in December! Oh me oh my!

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I've at last picked up the Corinne Lapierre Advent Calendar again, and completed Day 10. Day 10! But it's the 16th tomorrow! I'm not going to let that bother me. I'm doing what I can, when I'm able, and enjoying the progress. After all, it's not supposed to be work.

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I managed for persuade myself to get started on the Christmas cards, and now have a small pile waiting to be posted. I had bought 50 stamps, but could I find where I had put them? Despair slowly crept in as we searched everywhere...

I remember extracting them from the envelope they arrived in, and putting the packaging in the recycling. Now I was thinking that bin day had been and gone and made, possibly, the stamps had possibly gone with the recycling by mistake...

Then the one unemptied bin in the room caught my eye, and there were the stamps... in the bin!!!

I've put them on the table in plain view. If I lose them again I just have to visit this post on joy.