has set up a Christmas memory site....
here is mine!
As a child, along with all of my friends the Christmas Nativity Play was always a special event.
For many years we awaited the teacher's decision.....who would play the roles of Mary and Joseph?
I was always the Angel Gabriel...Was it because of my angelic looks? (don't laugh!) was it my long blonde hair?
No, I discovered years later it was because my Dad would get a wonderful set of wings made by his apprentices. He was a training officer at ICI, he trained instrument artificers! Something to do with some complicated electrical engineering I think!
He would set the apprentices on the project...to design and make a pair of wings for Gabriel.
Each year the wings became more and more elaborate, wires, feathers, plastic, paper, you name it, it would be somewhere in the grand plan! The final year I was to be Gabriel arrived...I was 11. This was to be last appearance as I was moving to a senior school!
I was a small child, and my mum dressed me in a beautiful white dress, edged with tinsel.
In my hair I wore a tinsel hairband and carried a wand! (never seen an angel with a wand myself!)
The wings were delivered and as they were strapped to me with various ties and wires the weight of them was quite a burden.
I stepped foreward to make my entrance only to have the weight of the wings pull me backwards and fall into the crib!
Baby Jesus went hurtling across the floor and as it hit the wall, the head flew off the doll and rolled into the path of the shepherds.Joseph (John Cooper) started to laugh!
needless to say everybody else joined in!
I still remember it well!
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What a fantastic story. I read it out to everyone at home and we all had a good chuckle!!! I must try and remember if I have any good memories!!
Aren't Christmas memories somthing!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
thanks for the visit!
The scene you describe is hilarious. Great story to tell for generations!
Thanks for visiting my blog so I can get to know yours now!!
Happy Holidays to you and yours!
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year.
Saludos de spain.
Tell me again Mrs. Nes...was this a nativity play...or a panto you were starring in..!?
What a funny story I loved it..
MERRY CHRISTMAS
and thank you for the e-card..xx
Great funny memory story.
Thank you for stopping by my blog and your nice comments.
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Please do the same.
Wishing you and yours a very Merry Christmas.
Thanks for stopping by my blog. I often follow people to their blogs from their comments on another blog too.
This story is a wonderful Christmas memory. This should definately be passed down to future generations :)
So funny Mrs N really really made me laugh
So true, so typical...................rich dialogue eh!
Great to welcome the photo people aboard!
We will all be visiting you soon!
Dx
Oh no!!!!
That is pretty funny.
I'm glad I dropped by.
Merry Christmas!
Oh Denise - I bet you had them rolling in the aisles that year - a hard act to follow, that's for sure! It's made my day and I shall never see a picture of an angel without thinking of you toppling over backwards onto the crib! MERRY CHRISTMAS.
Great story. Hope this Christmas is just as memorable, but for less embarrasing reasons! Happy Christmas!
That was so funny!
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