A snowy conflict

We stood in small numbers in minus conditions singing advent songs and Christmas Carols. The hoar frost gnawed away at us for an hour until the biting wind and snow forced us to quit. A man enrobed in a downy moaned at us for pinching his patch it was both comical and sad that in our attempt to raise money for AIDS orphans in South Africa we were encroaching on his begging. A moral dilemma, he complained that we were not singing songs he knew just as we started singing Hark the Herald. Later he started mocking our singing by pretending to sing. We have a few more days of this. Luckily we are up to the challenge but the moral conflict grabs my sense of the absurd. There are rumours that the weather it is going to get worse.