A little bit of doggerel, as distraction, in the midst of yet another crazily busy day!

T'was the week before Christmas

And all through the manse

Not a creature was snoring

Not even the cats!

The orders of service

were printed with care

And music, and visual aids

were piled everywhere

The emails kept pinging

For this thing and that

(Whilst lovely greetings card

arrived on the mat)

Meetings, more meetings

Work programmes and plans

Deadlines keep looming

And I need to go out...

Then, into the midst

Of this chaos (quite ordered, no panic)

A quiet whisper spoke

And said, 'don't be so manic!'

'You've worked hard

All year and so leave it to me -

Christmas will happen,

Just you wait and see'

So with those thoughts

At my PC I type

Merry Christmas to all -

And it'll all turn out right!