‘We have to keep things normal for the children’s sake,’ Rita Small said to her colleagues after school on the last Friday in November. ‘They don’t understand all the worries their parents have and we don’t want them to think about them.’ David Watts and Mary Jackson nodded. ‘Our Christmas nativity performance and carol service must go ahead.’ ‘I’ll take the costumes home next weekend and see that they are still all right,’ added young Mary. ‘And I’ll look the music out and make sure the instruments are in working order. I seem to remember young David Johnson treating the big drum last Christmas like a wood-chopping exercise,’ smiled Rita. The teachers would have found many supporters. Arthur was determined the traditional Christmas services should go ahead, including carol singing round the village. Violet Rushton and Harry Groves had ordered in Christmas cards, Rachel Fielding planned to put up decorations in The Queens Head and her brother, Samuel, would follow suit at The Ark.
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