What if there had been room at the inn?

“Why yes, Mr Nazareth, we have just had a cancellation. The valet will stable your donkey. Will you be requiring breakfast?”

A much nicer experience for the travelling couple, but hard to see how you create a religion lasting 2000 years on the basis of an infant born in the Bethlehem Suite.

As it happened, Mary gave birth on a pile of straw and two millennia of Christianity followed. It can't have been easy. Her husband didn’t know who the father was. Three dodgy guys on camels turned up wearing a lot of cologne. And just as the baby fell asleep, the Drummer Boy started up.

Ta rum pum pum pum.

Josie's farewell to the madcap 2023 is here.