Have a go at our next caption competition (above) and win a prize of Fairtrade chocolate!
Send your entries by email only to captioncompetition@churchtimes.co.uk by 9 a.m. on Monday 2 August.
Here is the winning entry for last week:
George FrostGeorge Frost
Vision and Strategy, I presume (Peter Beal)
WE RECEIVED an unusually high number of entries this time; so we have space to print only some. This was, not surprisingly, a week for the puns:
- Ewe shall not pass (Peter Ould)
- Late again, ewe two. Chop chop (Chris Howse)
- And what can I do for ewe, pray tell? (Rachael Simmons)
- We have come to have our Baaaans read (Peter Walker)
- Sorry, your Baaahhd (Jennifer Leach)
- It’s been quiet since flock-down (Susan Shaw)
- Bah humbug (Rita Shah)
- You shall not pass. The way is baaa’d (Bridget Swan)
- I don’t Baalieve it we’re late for the service again (Sheena Batey)
- Would you like to join the flock? (Claire Driver)
- The new members of his congregation looked a little bit sheepish (Selena Longworth)
- I think you must be looking for the Baaaa-ptist church down the road (Judith Leadbeater)
- So you think you would like to join your mother at the ewecharist (Ray Pearson).
As lockdown restrictions ease, it seems that this parish church is taking a cautious approach:
- I don’t care if you are the Lamb of God, NO MASK NO ENTRY! (Marion Tanner)
- I’m afraid ewe can’t come in without a mask (Karen Wells)
- Have ewe been vaccinated? (Betty Shakespeare)
- Baaack off, social distancing still in place! (Adele Knight)
- Wool you let us in without a mask? (Fiona Jesson)
- Yes, I know the Lord’s my Shepherd, but you still can’t come in — we’re in flockdown (Lyn Gillespie)
- Even with social distancing the flock were determined to attend Sunday Service (Richard Owen)
- I don’t care if your friend insists that he’s the Lamb of God. You’re not coming in without a mask! (Carol Clarence)
- I don’t care if the goats are in your support bubble. You can’t sit together (Chris Hammett)
- You might be lambs of God, but you still need to wear a mask and sanitise (Geoffrey House).
Some other entries that we enjoyed:
- It’s not Easter today, come back next year! (Joanne Cox)
- Is this where the Good Shepherd lives? (Margaret Hamilton)
- Confession time! Which one of you two ate the church-plant? (Ian Barge)
- If I let you in, promise you won’t run around like woolly jumpers (Bill de Quick)
- A good shepherd told us that you would feed his lambs (John Saxbee)
- Is Noah’s Ark through this door? (Sheena Read)
- During Covid, the vicar tends to whatever flock he can get (Tracy Reid)
- Shirley and Sandra took their psalms very seriously: they’d already been lying down in green pastures and now they’d come to visit the Lord who was their shepherd (Claire Lawrenson)
- Is this the correct venue to grab a jab, Vicar? (Lynn Neal)
- All sheep and sizes welcome here (Julie Oakley)
- But where are the other 98? (Kay Griffiths)
- No, sorry, we can’t prove we are not wolves (Paul Lodge)
- These two would make good members for the PCC (Richard Hough)
- We have erred and strayed — which way did the shepherd go? (Michael Foster)
- The vicar suddenly saw the churchwardens for what they really were (Patrick Irwin)
- It may say ‘All welcome’, but, if I let you in, will that put a whole new meaning on Messy Church? (Daphne Foster)
- Well, yes, I suppose this is the Department of Lost Sheep (Valerie Budd)
- Lily and Larry faced the Limiting Factor (Celia Stevenson)
- After recent vandalism at the church, the vicar stands firm against a pair of ram-raiders (Rob Falconer)
- Sorry, we don’t feed lambs any more, pastoral care is out, it’s all mission nowadays (Alan Lewin)
- Sorry if I wasn’t speaking clearly, Lord, I asked for a spare pair of hands to help with the benefice! (Tim Goodbody)
- Now, about this grass-cutting job in the churchyard (Alan Gostelow)
As ever, the winner receives a prize of Fairtrade chocolate, courtesy of Divine Chocolate.
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