&nbsp; On Sunday the 8th December, Tim Boocock, the Minister at St Andrew&#8217;s in Beeston prepared a Carol Service with a difference. Not only was it created around a Pantomime theme but it also featured a retelling of the nativity from a woman&#8217;s perspective &#8211; well a man dressed as a woman, actually three men dressed as women to be precise. We learned that Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh were of little practical use to a new born baby and its mother, and in fact the  <span><a href="http://www.standrewspanto.uk/?p=914" class="readmore">Continue reading &rarr;</a></span>{"id":914,"date":"2019-12-22T12:17:15","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.standrewspanto.uk\/?p=914"},"modified":"2019-12-22T12:17:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:17:15","slug":"pantomime-carol-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.standrewspanto.uk\/?p=914","title":{"rendered":"Pantomime Carol Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday the 8th December, Tim Boocock, the Minister at St Andrew&#8217;s in Beeston prepared a Carol Service with a difference. Not only was it created around a Pantomime theme but it also featured a retelling of the nativity from a woman&#8217;s perspective &#8211; well a man dressed as a woman, actually three men dressed as women to be precise.<\/p>\n<p>We learned that Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh were of little practical use to a new born baby and its mother, and in fact the Wise Men would have lived up to their &#8216;Wise Men&#8217; tag far more credibly if they had brought nappies, cream and nipple pads!<\/p>\n<p>A fun time was had by all in a very substantial congregation numbers wise and as you can see many of whom entered into the spirit by wearing a panto costume!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.standrewspanto.uk\/?attachment_id=912\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-912\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-912 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.standrewspanto.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/aviary-image-1577016336971-300x298.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.standrewspanto.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/aviary-image-1577016336971-300x298.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.standrewspanto.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/aviary-image-1577016336971-1024x1017.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.standrewspanto.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/aviary-image-1577016336971-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.standrewspanto.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/aviary-image-1577016336971-768x763.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.standrewspanto.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/aviary-image-1577016336971-624x620.jpg 624w, http:\/\/www.standrewspanto.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/aviary-image-1577016336971.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.standrewspanto.uk\/?attachment_id=913\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-913\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-913\" src=\"http:\/\/www.standrewspanto.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/aviary-image-1577016358815-300x214.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.standrewspanto.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/aviary-image-1577016358815-300x214.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.standrewspanto.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/aviary-image-1577016358815-1024x729.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/www.standrewspanto.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/aviary-image-1577016358815-768x547.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.standrewspanto.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/aviary-image-1577016358815-624x444.jpeg 624w, http:\/\/www.standrewspanto.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/aviary-image-1577016358815.jpeg 1051w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.standrewspanto.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.standrewspanto.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.standrewspanto.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.standrewspanto.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.standrewspanto.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.standrewspanto.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":915,"href":"http:\/\/www.standrewspanto.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions\/915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.standrewspanto.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.standrewspanto.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.standrewspanto.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}