Perfect Storm

The annual Nursery Harvest Service should be an entirely straightforward liturgical observance. How many things could go wrong?

- It was pouring with rain so everyone arrived soaked.
- The apple (from the Rectory garden) I cut open to illustrate the idea of seeds growing turned out to have no seeds in it.
- The projector seems to be on the blink, decorating the screen with a pattern of vertical lines.
- The CD with 'We plough the fields' on it wouldn't work in the CD player.
- The nursery staff had only just got all the Harvest gifts together so they were left in bags rather than the children bringing them up. The children were left just watching nonplussed.
- Several children decided to bawl their heads off and two girls fell out over whether or not to hold each others' hand.

It shouldn't have been as tiring as it was!