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Humphrey returns...

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A few years ago I made an outdoor nativity set for the lawn outside our church.. first year I made it the camel and the manger went missing just after christmas - we never found the camel, and we found the manger down by the railway tracks - having been tossed over the bridge... (had to persuade some friendly railtrack workers to recover it for me!) made a new Humphrey and repaired the battered manger...

 

anyway - went up loft end of last week to get the figures down - and remembered that last year someone had kindly snapped off three of Humphrey the camel's legs and I had meant to fix them - but forgot all about it...

 

cue - mad dashing rush to make new set of legs for Humphrey - then put the figures out - cue: howling gale - so had to stake and guy rope them all! Will add steel wire for security tomorrow... but - here's Humphrey back in his pomp... 8)

 

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and the full set...

 

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one of the kings had his hand snapped off - presumably the local yobs thought he might be carrying real gold??

 

:roll:

 

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merry christmas one and all...

 

Phil 8)

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they're lovely, Norm Abram eat your heart out! ;)

 

Can you do chickens? ;)

 

Hope they don't suffer from any further yob behaviour :(

 

actually... funny you should say that - I have promised myself I will make these in the new year...

 

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Phil 8)

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they're lovely, Norm Abram eat your heart out! ;)

 

Can you do chickens? ;)

 

Hope they don't suffer from any further yob behaviour :(

 

actually... funny you should say that - I have promised myself I will make these in the new year...

 

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Phil 8)

 

they're gorgeous! You could do some for Easter but make sure they're secure as they'll probably get pinched :(

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...could you do some for inside the church or is that a bit like putting a cut out of Father Christmas in there!? :?

 

The children would love them though.

 

I bet you could sell them to raise money for the roof ;) Do churches still have dodgy roofs these days? :lol:

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...could you do some for inside the church or is that a bit like putting a cut out of Father Christmas in there!? :?

 

 

the cockerel has a key role in the easter story......

 

Phil 8)

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...could you do some for inside the church or is that a bit like putting a cut out of Father Christmas in there!? :?

 

 

the cockerel has a key role in the easter story......

 

Phil 8)

 

good excuse then :D

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I bet you could sell them to raise money for the roof ;) Do churches still have dodgy roofs these days? :lol:

 

ROFL I took James to church this morning and I said to him not sure if its in Church or in the village hall. When he asked why I explained they were fixing the church roof, when he asked why to that I said because church roofs always need fixing!

 

RevNev - is that the Church along by Roomes?

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LOL - reminds me how long it is since I went to Roomes, and the excellent charity shops of Upminster.....

 

Oh and the park is lovely too - except it's opposite McDonalds which I don't mind but ITS THE WORST MCDONALDS IN THE WORLD. Hardly any staff and HUGE queues.

 

Isn't there an Aldi there now too? I like Aldi.

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