Surreal moment

Forgot the classic moment from Church yesterday. Lovely old fashioned, but new spinning top in the toy box in the creche corner. I have become a master at whipping out the new noise-making toys. After all there'a nothing so frustrating as a mobile phone, particularly a toy one purporting to be Noddy calling Big Ears, going off during the solemn moments of communion. I can spot a felt pen at a distance of 6 metres, and if gathering up said offending articles was an Olympic Sport, I'd be Kelly Holmes.

Anyway spinning top spun prettily but I was a bit bemused by the arms hanging down by it's side, a la Mr Potato Head. Didn't pay it too much attention until the blessing of the offering, when a two year old (not mine thankfully) pulled the arm, and the blessing was conducted to the accompaniment of 'The Wheels on the Bus'.

Luckily of course, those who are most hard of hearing sit in the back rows (informal Church rule - the more difficult you find it to hear you sit further back and complain that the microphones don't work properly), very funny.