Have a go at our next caption competition (above). Send entries by email only to captioncompetition@churchtimes.co.uk by 9 a.m., Monday 23 February.
We invite readers’ ideas for photos: please provide a credit and confirm that those pictured are happy for the photo to be used.
Here is the winning entry for the previous competition:
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If this camel is going to go through the eye of a needle, I’m going with it (Bill de Quick)
A SELECTION of this week’s entries:
“The camel seemed happy to carry the Holy Family in the Pageant, but found the English climate difficult to cope with” (Richard Hough); “Off to tea with the Vicar, camel-mile of course, but one hump or two?” (Michael Doe); “It was all he had to offer, the best he had to hand” (Julia Norman); “Behind every great king stands a bishop saying, ‘Right, then, on three’” (Francesca Grimshaw); “If you take me for a ride, I’ll get the hump with you” (Helga Brandt).
“There are no speed restrictions for camels on the road to Bethlehem” (Patrick Irwin); “Should’ve listened harder to the sermon on the mount” (Martin Kettle); “Stop saying that this is giving you the right hump and grab hold of it!” (Alison Woods); “Not so wise man is running over a month late” (Anthony Gore); “Not only was it hard enough to get onto the camel, but then there came getting it through the eye of the needle” (Sue Chick); “No one had thought of doing a risk assessment” (Valerie Budd).
“The indignities we camels suffer — and mind your feet on my hump” (Jennie Hayward); “’Would have preferred to try and pass through the eye of a needle,’ said the woman. ‘So would I,’ said the camel” (Ray Goode); “Off you go son — and be sure to come back another way” (John Saxbee); “The Vicar began to question the wisdom of an interactive sermon series on ‘Who put the colours in the rainbow?’” (Daniel Sandham); “Not quite Lawrence of Arabia” (Richard Strudwick); “For the Epiphany service at St Spiven’s, the verger had hired a Bactrian camel as appropriate for the Magi, but was having difficulty getting the vicar mounted on it” (Robin Morgan); “Camel calls for divine intervention as the priest attempts a holy ascent” (Giles Cotterill); “Some felt the re-enactment of Rebekah dismounting her camel to meet Isaac lacked due decorum” (Jo Mash).
“What committee designed this horse? Not Synod, I hope” (Chris Hall); “The Epiphany camel was late this year, having got the hump after being lent out for Lent” (Michael Foster); “Life is full of slippery slopes” (Brian Stevenson); “During Epiphany, our priest took the hump (again)” (Janet Stockton); “Ride on, ride on in majesty” (Robert Shooter); “Doesn’t this camel come with a Stannah stairlift?” (Nick Baker); “The Vicar misunderstood when he was asked to step outside for a Camel” (Chris Coupe); “If a camel with one hump is called a dromedary, and a camel with two humps is called a Bactrian, what do you call one with three humps? Humphrey” (Rob Falconer).
As ever, the winner receives a prize of Fairtrade chocolate, courtesy of Divine Chocolate.
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