https://archive.rustgeek.me/tags/childrens-day/ Recent content in Children's-Day on A Geek's Life Hugo en Sun, 29 May 2011 21:49:05 +0000 https://archive.rustgeek.me/2011/05/29/hymnals-memories/ Sun, 29 May 2011 21:49:05 +0000 https://archive.rustgeek.me/2011/05/29/hymnals-memories/ <p>Given my decidedly abysmal attendance at church this year, it is somewhat out of character that I arrive early enough to catch the beginning of the opening hymn, the incredibly mellifluous <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Things_Bright_and_Beautiful">All Things Bright and Beautiful</a>. It is one hymn, in all its variants of tune and stanza, which I have come to associate with growing up all those many years ago on a University campus in Nigeria. For all of ten years, it was a perennial favourite amongst the teachers and prefects who led morning assemblies, and along with my well worn copy of <a href="http://www.oremus.org/hymnal/sop25.html">Songs of Praise</a> remains stuck in my head as markers from that phase of life.</p>