Christingle Photos - the shame

? MrB does look mightily hacked off with the whole performance

Oh wow, you've hadd your baby! How did I miss that?

Many congratulkations, I'm so pleaseed for you.

? Benazir Bhutto.

Thank you so much for sharing, these are fab and so funny! ? Well done to you both, I'm impressed at you having the bottle!

Funnily enough I was thinking of you yesterday as we went to see Four Christmases and the couple were forced to play Mary and Joseph at the last moment, very funny.

? MrB looks like he is there on pain of death

Waaaaah ? MrB looks really hacked off, doesn't he? He was more keen to do it than I was, the weirdo. He said it would be his 3rd performance as Joseph. We both look tres grim because it was either that or laugh and that wouldn't go down too well. perhaps he was being method and was worrying about how we'd all manage overnighting in a stable...

Sare, thank you, she's 12 weeks on thursday and sleeps for microseconds at a time at night. Ugh. All good fun ?

I was only thinking today "where are those beggaring photos?"

You look very serene. MrB is looking suitably serious isn't he? I think on MrB 'suitably serious', 'embarrassed' and 'desperate to run away' tend to look the same don't they? ?

I wanna see the donkey ?

Oh THANKYOU MrsB! The story and photo's have cheered me up!

I love your fab red hair <jealous icon>

Poor MrB looks suitably, erm.. umm... serious!

Aww, you could use it for your family christmas card next year.......

Brilliant! and laughing my socks off at 'Benazir Bhutto', I wonder if any of the congregation were musing "what's a muslim doing playing Mary?"

I may be guilty of horrific (and borderline racist) stereotyping here, but are there many Muslims with red hair? Or rather, does red hair fit the popular image?

? What a great story. What's a nativity without a few crying children and singed hair?

A proportion of Kurdish people have red hair and blue eyes so on that account it's possible.

I don't think red hair fits any popular image really does it? ? Maybe the mark of the devil? not terribly Virginal though, really is it? ?

PMSL @ all MrB's expressions looking the same. he either does ecstatically happy (rare) or just a bit collapsed. you can take your pick ?

Some Kurdish people have red hair and blue eyes, but no, I guess it doesn't really fit the 'stereotype'!

But I fear the glasses may be mildly anachronistic.

By at least a millennium.

It's not uncommon in Turkey. It was the pasty skin that they couldn't understand with me ?

Why can't I get the hang of 'new hitched'? I didn't think my 1st response had been posted (sob)

Waaaaaaaaaaaah!! Fab photos MrsB, you look great ? Love the outfits.

Waaaaaaaaaaaah!! Fab photos MrsB, you look great ? Love the outfits.

Waaaaaaaaaaaah!! Fab photos MrsB, you look great ? Love the outfits.

I did think of dispensing with the specs but then I realised I wouldn't be able to see a thing.

not that that stopped the donkey. ? I wish I'd got someone to take pictures of him, he was hilarious.

Brilliant photos. I love it, you both look very serious.

<snort> ?

<craig R-H> fab-u-lous </craig R-H>. they are classic, B-ster. you should add them to clemmie's keepsake box for her first year and pull 'em out at her 18th ?

? I'm in pieces here. So funny, a bit of wee came out?

Wwwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh this is the first time I have logged on since you even mentioned you were doing this.

Brilliant. So so brilliant. I am so pleased I got to see these. MrB looks really annoyed, maybe he was wondering where the eygptian cotton linen cot sheets are for his precious Jesus.

? at his third time as Joseph.

? Fantastic, thanks Mrs B.

Re. Muslims with red hair - not stereotyping at all Mr JK, I think there are very few but there is an ethnic group that lives on the Black Sea coast of Turkey (the Laz) who very often have dark red/auburn hair. They are Muslims (though I suspect only for the past century or so). Of course, there are also lots of Muslim women in the more liberal countries who dye their hair red (maybe in the less liberal ones too, but you don't get to see it!)