The ‘birthday hats’ are a long tradition at our church, tolerated by some, loved by others. Last night, however, a more unusual hat was on display…
The reason for the hat was that the previous day had been Stephen’s ‘stag do’, when a group of the men went paintballing (though none were willing for their bruises to appear on the blog today…!) The hat, alas, could not be worn during the actual paintballing (because of health and safety reasons), so Stephen compromised by wearing it to play the children’s songs during the service! Quite why a traffic cone was bought for him no one has yet explained to me, but as a mere woman, I don’t really understand these male rituals. Paintballing seems to be an utterly masochistic way of spending a day, but as I’ve been told, ‘you just don’t get it; it’s a man thing….’