We’re midway through this pagan festival with Christmas caroling out of the way and twelfth night still to come. (Both caroling and wassailing once constituted a form of busking and usually included a request for alms or some form of refreshment.)
At Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve in Hoarwithy Church, Herefordshire our village quire sang an unusual version of While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night. Unfortunately one of the basses (me) forgets to repeat the chorus and the whole performance grinds briefly to a halt. Tut-tut from the congregation.
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