Success!!!!! We managed to attend the carol service with a full complement of grandmothers! Mum wasn't too tired, so I called the cathedral to see if there was a route in for wheelchairs. Missed the turning first time round, but we found a space only yards away from the door at the back. Mum was in a reasonably co-operative mood, so I managed to haul her out of the car without too much protest, plonk her in the chair and whizz into the cathedral just in time.
When the ocarinas started to play, Mum clapped her hand to her mouth and said: "What on earth's that? It sounds awful!" The children who were sitting near us, started to giggle. Of course young ocarina players sound awful, it's just that you don't say it! I then wondered whether a lifetime in choral societies would encourage Mum to singalong to every carol including the solos - but it didn't and it was great to see her singing the carols she did know, with a happy beam on her face. She loved being there, with the holly and the candles and all the children.
LGP was sitting with H2 on the other side - they arrived even later than we did. LGP complained that she couldn't see anything. But she was right. It's a curious thing in that cathedral, that wherever you sit, you are behind a pillar. Was it built by worthy farmers who knew that they might fall asleep in the pews and didn't want to offend the minister that his sermon was just a tad too earnest?!
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