Published Date:
28 November 2009
Longfield Road Holywell Green
Halifax
Just coming up lunchtime I hear the letterbox rattle. There on the mat lay Calderdale Call and the Courier.
Todmorden
TODMORDEN was bright on Saturday, November 21, in spite of the weather.
A Dickensian fair in Water Street and St Mary's Church, and a switch on of lights even though we hadn't even reached Stir-up Sunday, a day that isn't much noted in these days of splendid shop-made Christmas puddings and of churches that wrongly sideline the Prayer Book.
I agree with protests that too many illuminations are a mere geometric patterns with even Rudolph left in his northland. Please can we have some Nativity scenes next year, to remind us of the everyday lowliness of the infant Redeemer for whom the festival is named? I'm all for honouring other faith groups' special days and will gladly wish any agnostics "Happy Winterval", but I really draw a line at gun-jumping Autumval which has sneaked in. As a councillor I never could find who decides on such excessively early midwinter observances.
Frank McManus
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Last Updated:
28 November 2009 9:41 AM
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Source:
Evening Courier Main
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Location:
Halifax
