This image was made for a Christmas competition in which the scene had to be focussed on a window. This image illustrates the poem quoted below. The angels in the image are from angel tubes from tubz 4U. The trees are from tubes by Barry and Marg Davies
THE COLDEST NIGHT OF THE YEAR
by Jimmy Webb (Jimmy Webb's Animals)
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At a pub called The Elephant's Ear Incredible Phat, the Inn-keeper's cat, Was having a saucer of beer With fourteen merry gentlemen On the coldest night of the year.
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Some poor stranger in rags did appear At the door of the inn, Face weary and thin, To ask 'Is there any room here?' But the owner just laughed And said, 'My friend, It's the coldest night of the year.'
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And a money lender, A taxman, a soldier, And a harness mender, Three barmy old coots in silver boots, Two are star-gazers And the other's a seer.'
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The stranger went hiding a tear And Incredible Phat, the Inn-keeper's cat Followed and saw standing near, Peacably still, A donkey bearing a pale sweet girl Through the coldest night of the year.
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Bought one last round for an acrobat And the spy with no chin Who had also come in From the cold with Herod's surly charioteer.
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For I know of a shelter that's near.' And he led them out back To a tumbledown shack Where the Inn-keeper's wife kept a steer. And he said 'It's the warmest place in town On the coldest night of the year.' |
This was my second entry for the same competition. The decorations at the top of the curtain are from tubes by Barry and Marg Davies. The figure of Santa and the Christmas tree were taken from Victorian Christmas cards.
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