Today I called into the supermarket near church and loaded up my basket with:

• eight bags of oranges
• four boxes of cocktail sticks
• their entire stock of own label fruit pastilles
• a roll of foil

When I got to the till, the lady said, "are you going to make orange juice?"

I tried to explain the Christingle to her but she just looked faintly bemused.

If, however, you are in the Glasgow area and want to find out just what one is, than come and join us at 4 p.m. on Christmas Eve... it is our "families watchnight" but Christingle is fun for all ages imo.