Each year we go to the 6 near by villages to sing for toys, but for some very strange reason the village I went to, all the people I visited gave me a toy & they also gave me money not to sing the vicar said I had a very unique singing voice & he didn't want me to hurt my vocal cords by singing. But I did collect £1, 015 by not singing & 60 toys for the dogs, but best of all the rescue dog I took with me, is being adopted by one of the villagers in the new year, she is a very timid little terrier mix, the people that are going to adopt her has already passed our home check in October, so will just have a quick visit by one of our home checkers on the 29th December just to make sure everything the same, then Mizzy will go live with them on the 2nd January
I wonder if the real reason the Vicar didn't want you to sing was because most people would be hoping to hear carols or Christmas songs and not songs about gnomes.....
Nope I had hymn book (well folder with 5 songs in) but as soon as I knocked on a door it opened & a toy was shoved at me, along with money & they said something like "its ok you don't need to sing" then the door closed, but it was ok I got to sing in the van on way back to The Rescue Home & Mizzy joined in.
Oh good, glad you got to sing. I love Christmas songs and Carols, and drive the family mad by playing them non-stop on my CD player. And I am probably one of the few people who enjoys the Christmas music piped out at supermarkets (except when Tesco play a sanitized version of Fairytale of New York - I far prefer the Pogues version!)
That remind me I bought a Christmas CD from the £1 shop & it had the Pogues on it along with Shaking Stevens, Bing Cosby, Frank Sinatra, Boney M, Mud Slade & Wizard, can't remember the rest of them as there's 45 songs on it x
Really well done Tina on your fundraising - no matter how you managed it! and Yes, I like the Shane and Kirsty version too!
