Okay, Mary

"It's okay, Mary. I got this. Everything's gonna be okay ..."

I've got an idea for a story that involves some characters who could be compared to the 'wise kings' of the nativity story. Maybe it was because I was thinking of this during the day that I dreamt about the story of Mary and Joseph turning up in a barn with Jesus as a baby.

"Bit of a shithole," Joseph was thinking.

"I'm not sleeping here!" Mary was saying.

There was an old palette covered in straw in the corner. Moonlight filtered in through the cracks in the walls, giving everything a silvery-blue hue.

And then a guy dressed as Batman - that's right, not Batman himself, but just a guy in a costume - burst in and started entertaining the visitors, including a bunch of school kids from God knows where.

Jesus slept through the whole thing; he was always a good sleeper.

Other sources for this dream: suggested that our Elderflower cordial was, though unlikely, pressed by the feet of virgins.