Stumbled on a scratch Christmas carol choir last year, joined it this year, and haven't had a more enjoyable Advent for years.

To draw on a vaguely related thread, who cares? You can put feeling into - or draw feeling from - a religious event and relate it to your lived human experience even if you have some rational misgivings about its transcendental bits.

Speaking of Muppets, I remarked recently to a roughly coeval colleague that we were turning into the two characters from the Muppet Show, "Waldorf and ..............." eh, Waldorf and what was the other old git's name?