This Sunday our title is "Beyond 400 - Remembering Our Future" - and is part response to the BUGB-BMS Assembly, part church meeting and totally 'Being Baptist'.  It's a bit experimental and a bit 'old-is-new' as we rediscover early Baptist praxis.  Alas, as I've prepared my reflection (i.e. short sermon) this Rolf Harris song has kept popping unbidden into my brain....

Now the ladies of the harem of the court of King
Caractacus, were just passing by.
All together, now the ladies of the harem of the court
of King Caractacus, were just passing by.
Now the ladies of the harem of the court of King
Caractacus, were just passing by.
Now the ladies of the harem of the court of King
Caractacus, were just passing by.

Now the noses on the faces of the ladies of the harem
of the court of King Caractacus, were just passing by.
All together, now the noses on the faces of the ladies
of the harem of the court of King Caractacus, were just
passing by.
Now the noses on the faces of the ladies of the harem
of the court of King Caractacus, were just passing by.
Now the noses on the faces of the ladies of the harem
of the court of King Caractacus, were just passing by.

Now the boys who put the powder on the noses on the
faces of the ladies of the harem of the court of King
Caractacus, were just passing by.
[Repeat 4 times]

Now the fascinating witches who put the scintilating
stitches in the breeches of the boys who put the powder
on the noses on the faces of the ladies of the harem of
the court of King Caractacus, were just passing by.
[Repeat 4 times]

Now if you want to take some pictures of the
fascinating witches who put the scintilating stitches in
the breeches of the boys who put the powder on the
noses on the faces of the ladies of the harem of the
court of King Caractacus...

...you're too late! Because they've just... passed...
by!

[From: http://www.elyrics.net ]

I blame Paul Fiddes... it was a quote from him that sparked this memory!