Carol Singing

Take some time to read this delightful true story. I have been working at a Primary school in Bradford as a supply teacher for quite a while. The school was burned down just before the start of term in August but everyone rallied round and, with the support of Bradford Met. and the fabulous staff there, we opened for business in September using two annexes. It has been hard work but with a tireless headteacher who spurred everyone on and gave encouragement all the time miracles happened. I look after one reception class and in the classroom opposite me teaches Mrs. Dianna Norman. She has a year one class. Now I know Mrs. Norman, ...

Hey, where may I ask have all the Christmas carollers gone. When I was younger, you couldn't get rid of them! Nowadays, you only see teenagers and gangs hanging around and scaring the elderly pensioners. For example: My Nan’s 76 years old, she's very fragile, she's broke a bone in her back and is blind in one eye and has suffered from Glaucoma for the past 40 years, and on Halloween, I stop down there with her, because where my nan lives there is a gang of teenagers and younger youths that hang around. If anybody comes to the door I answer it, just in case somebody tries to play a trick. It especially get's rather nasty around about the ...

Where may I ask have all the carollers gone? In Christmasses of old tradition dictated that part of the annual Christmas was to sit around the coalfire/piano or stand at doors of friends and neighbours and sing to the heart's content. However recently over the last half of the last century most of the normal traditions have disappeared and carol singing is one of them. Singers used to be in tune and visit around the week or days before Christmas singing complete songs and bringing Joy to the World! Now we are lucky if we get one decent little caroller who knows above two lines. In our house it is the normal tradition still ...