For Stir-Up Sunday, Hay is helping the Friends of Old Sodbury Church raise funds for the church fabric by holding a Christmas cracker making event for kids. This follows on from her world famous Kids' Crafts stall at the Village Day in summer. She's a victim of her own success.
To make the crackers she's asked everyone she knows to provide her with toilet rolls and Christmas wrapping paper. However, several ladies of her acquaintance have alerted her to the microbial dangers of toilet rolls, especially in relation to kids.
This was a popular meme several years ago that has never gone away and, being a PhD bio-chemist, Hay decided to research the issue through academic papers. She couldn't find a single academic paper claiming that toilet rolls were a disease vector. The meme was started by some schools being over-zealous in protecting the kids in their charge - the ever-present fear of being sued by parents causing a zero-risk response; the same zero-risk response that sends everyone to Accident and Emergency Departments for the slightest thing.
Unfortunately the church is in dire need of funds as, on the night of Tuesday of last week, some low-lives nicked the lead from the roof. While the thieves stand to make about £7,000 from the lead, the cost of replacement is around £30,000 and the insurance will only cover the cost of materials and not the labour.
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Well. So many true but dire indicators of the state of society these days - germophobia, hypochondria, lawlessness, stealing from the church, church needing funds, lead treated as a precious metal... but beware the poisonousness of it! Have fun kids, but only in psychotically careful doses of intensely regulated and managed fun.
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