It's Not Entirely Over Yet

Some more Christmas images, though not entirely gratuitous ones. As usual my final specifically seasonal responsibility this year was the carol service at Smallham Chapel. The sheep who usually visits the service died earlier this year and her daughter is a bit boisterous, so we contented ourselves with widening the music and the customary trip down to the barn to sing to the bemused animals there. 'Why?' one little boy pointedly asked his father; the answer 'Because the sheep enjoy Christmas as well,' didn't seem to satisfy him entirely. 

Meanwhile, back at Swanvale Halt, I baptised a baby whose family is part-Italian. His grandma left a handful of coins at the crib, which has never happened here before, at any rate.