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Have a go at the Church Times caption competition, and read the latest winner and top entries

17 January 2025

Adam Bullivant

Have a go at our next caption competition (above). Send entries by email only to captioncompetition@churchtimes.co.uk by 9 a.m., Monday 27 January.

We invite readers’ ideas for photos: please provide a credit and confirm that those pictured are happy for the photo to be used.

Here is the winning entry for the previous competition:  

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The judges were impressed by the larch angle Gabriel had arranged (John Appleby)

 

A SELECTION of entries for this week’s competition:

“Remembering the Revd Richard Coles’s stint on Strictly, our Vicar has a crack at “Rockin’ around the Christmas tree” (Alan Jewell); “What can you do if your partner doesn’t turn up for the church’s Christmas Strictly?” (Don Manley); “The Bishop had always struggled with the hokey-cokey moves” (Fiona Drinkell); Songs of Praise meets Strictly Come Dancing (Patrick Irwin); It couldn’t resist when he asked fir a dance” (Alison Woods); “He had an epiphany that today was Twelfth Night and he had to pack the Christmas tree away” (Kelley Parker).

Strictly contestant disappointed to find dance partner a little wooden” (Philip Lickley); ‘Morris’ was ‘pining’ for a dance, he couldn’t ‘leaf’ it!” (Meg Gaskell); Some tree-mendous dancing from pulpit today” (Claire Russell); The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, the less so by a redundant Christmas tree” (Donato Tallo); Strictly Come Dancing: ‘Chu-chu-church’” (Elaine White); To ensure the Spanish visitors felt welcome, the sermon was replaced by a festive demonstration of the Paso Doble” (Hazel Rea); “Liturgical dance? It’s gone about as fir as it can go” (John Saxbee); “I’d better spruce the tree up before it pines away” (Bill de Quick); “The Strictly Masked Singer hybrid event got off to a glittering start” (Andrew Robson); “It takes a tree to tango!” (Peter Sebbage); This tango is strictly just fir you” (Mary Lee); Strictly ‘Tree-men-dous!’ exclaimed Craig Revel Horwood” (Pearl Davison); “The Vicar’s choice of dance partner at the church’s version of Strictly was a bit of a prickly one” (Lynda Sebbage); “I’m a Vicar . . . get me out of here!” (Chris Coupe); Last Tango in Canterbury” (Brian Stevenson); “The Vicar practises his killer karate chop just prior to the New Year PCC meeting” (Paul MacDermott).

“When he prayed for a dance partner, he didn’t expect it to be this tree-mendously festive” (Kristyn Harris); Strictly, Vicar, are you sure that is the right way to tango with your flock?” (Steve Davies); “While CCTV certainly solved the mystery of the disappearing Christmas trees — it also raised some very uncomfortable questions!” (Mark Parry); “Despite the Twelfth Night tradition, the tree was reluctant to relinquish its Christmas duties” (Michael Foster); “Delivering the good news . . . one slightly rebellious Christmas tree at a time” (Scott Humm); “Sir Keir attempts to make his contribution to net zero by planting trees wherever possible” (Richard Hough); It takes tree to tango” (Rona Orme); “Vicar pines for Strictly Come Dancing (Nick Baker); “The Christmas fairy granted his wish for a dancing partner. Oh dear!” (Julia Norman).

As ever, the winner receives a prize of Fair­trade chocolate, courtesy of Divine Chocolate.

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