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Angels from the realms of glory

I'm such a lover of Christmas carols. Two of my special favourites are 'Angels from the realms of glory', and, one we used to sing at school but I have rarely heard elsewhere, 'Three Kings from Persian lands afar'. This latter one has a beautiful descant that the upper school used to sing while the lower school sang the lower part. It was such a special tradition in a very special time of year. (Nonsuch old girls, do you remember? Did you love it too?)
 
Three kings from Persian lands afar
To Jordan follow the pointing star

Festivals of fire and light

Hindus are currently celebrating the festival of Diwali, a contraction of the word "Deepavali" which translates intorow of lamps. Diwali involves the lighting of small clay lamps filled with oil to signify the triumph of good over evil.The festival commemorates the return of Lord Rama along with Sita and Lakshman from his fourteen year long exile and vanquishing the demon-king Ravana. In joyous celebration of the return of their king, the people of Ayodhya, the Capital of Rama, illuminated the kingdom with earthen oil lamps.

I say 'Jai' you say 'Ganesh'!

On Friday I visited India! (and Egypt, Greece, South-East Asia, North America, and Roman Britain, courtesy of the British Museum.) My younger son has been studying Ancient Egypt at school and will be studying Ancient Greecenext, so we wanted to take a look at the Egyptian and Greek collections during the half term holiday. But we also took a little detour to look at the wonderful Indian and South-East Asian collections.
 
On Fridays (during term-time) I teach a lunchtime yoga club at my kids' school to 6-9 year olds.