We're getting changed in Mrs Smiff's classroom ‘cos it's at the end of the hall where the stage is. And I can see Glenys Jones' knickers. They' re pink with little flowers on and they' re better than our Natalie's because she doesn't like pink, she only likes green and yella. My dad says pink for a girl and blue for a boy and Dad's right. Glenys is playing Mary and she's got a blue dress but that's alright because Mrs Simmons says she's special. I've got a sack thing to wear ‘cos I'm a shepherd and I've got a skipping rope from the P.E. cupboard. My mummy hasn't got a striped tea towel so Mrs Simmons lended me one of hers.
I've got one line to say. I say, ‘I bringed a Iamb for the baby Jesus’. Jack Leonard is playing Joseph, he's got lots to say. I could play Joseph, I know all his lines. He says, ‘knock, knock, knock. Have you any room?’ And then he says, ‘knock, knock, knock. Have you any room?’
And when he says it again Wayne Cooper lets him have a stable and Joseph says, ‘come on Mary we can stay here’ and Mary gets the baby Jesus out of the straw at the bottom of the manger and Jesus is bornded and Glenys wraps him up very tight because he's a dolly and it's a black dolly out of the play house and Jesus wasn't black though Mrs Simmons says he might have been but he wasn't because I saw his picture at Sunday School and he wasn't.
We're going in now so I hold George's hand. He's another shepherd but he hasn't got a lamb and he doesn't say anyfink. It's very bright on the stage but the other end of the hall is all dark but I can see some faces.
Where's Mummy? She's bringing Auntie Sally. I can see her. She's waving. Mrs Simmons said we shouldn't wave so I just wiggle my fingers with the little woolly Iamb I've got. It's got one leg missing because me and George was fighting for it and the leg came off and George frew it on the roof.
Mummy is looking at me. Auntie Sally is looking at me. Why is everybody looking at me? Mrs Simmons is whispering at me. It must be my turn, What do I say? I say I bringed, I bringed. I, Bugger, I've wet meself.
