Strap in. St Albans Abbey has a knitted Nativity scene. Yes. A KNITIVITY. Created in 2009 by Ann Hudson, wife of one of the vergers - the product of over five hundred hours hard knitting, and more than five kilos of wool. She adds more characters every year.
"Last year I added a donkey and an angel, this year I've made two camels," said Mrs Hudson, in a BBC interview (yes - there's some media heat around this, let me tell you). "For some people Christmas is more about presents and what's on the telly, I hope the 'knitivity' reminds people of the true meaning of Christmas," she added.
The Herts Advertiser is running a competition to name the camels. The prize is a PERSONAL tour round the Abbey, plus a DELUXE tea at the Abbey refectory. I am most definitely entering. Got to get those names right, though. Paul and Susan? Too plain? Hilary and Beavis? Too arch? God, it's so hard.
In other news, the incomparable Christopher Hitchens is dead. And the world is a poorer place. Fiercely intelligent, free thinking, original, vibrant, humane, articulate, deeply moral, bold, witty and charming. A sharp blade that cut through so much bullshit. Sad that he's gone; glad he was here.
Hitch and the Knitivity. I think he'd have appreciated a fabricated Jesus...
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