Things To Do
A few suggestions to pass the time...
- If you can sing, join a choir. If you can’t sing, just go and listen to a choir (please).
- Of course, if you really can’t sing but want to anyway, the
Last Night of the Proms may be for you. Whether you have a great
singing voice or one that sounds like chalk screeching on a blackboard,
when Jerusalem starts you can stand up and join in with thousands of others! You can do this by going to a rugby game too, or to church.
- If you’re a woman, join the Women’s Institute – the largest women’s organisation in Britain. Its official song, Jerusalem,
has been sung by members at the beginning of many meetings since 1924.
The WI enables its 215,00 members to make an impact in their
communities, influence local, national and world issues, and learn
traditional and new skills. See www.womens-institute.org.uk
- Rent the WI film Calendar Girls, starring Helen Mirren and Julie Walters, and see Jerusalem
being bashed out on an ancient church hall piano! The 2003 film was
inspired by the antics of the Rylstone and District Women’s Institute
in North Yorkshire, who famously took off their clothes to pose for a
charity calendar.
- Or if you’re fed up with all this singing, why not try writing your own hymn? Or your own words to the tune of Jerusalem. Send us your results here.
