Bit of a barney on the streets - and I use the plural loosely - of Husborne Crawley last Saturday night.
The "Street Parsons" from the Beaker Folk have been wandering around with lollipops and flip flops looking for people to help since the start of summer. But they have a Christians-only rule. The Beaker Secularists got grumpy. So the Street Secularists were founded to wander around in hi vis on a strictly non-religious basis.
Come Saturday evening there were 21 assorted helpers wandering up and down School Lane. They negotiated an agreement whereby the Parsons would walk on the left hand side of the pavement while the Secularists would patrol the right. But it all broke down after someone crossed the road. Nobody had agreed the diplomatic status of Crow Lane, and a fracas broke out.
Thankfully the one and alone reveller walking home that evening stopped and negotiated a ceasefire. A couple of people had some nasty flip-flop shaped bruises. But other than that, nothing too serious.
Next week, we're gonna send the Street Parsons to the pub and let Bruce, the bloke who sorted it out, hand out the flip flops. It's got to be less trouble.
Street pastors always sounds to me like Street Plasters? Just the thing for a young thing in high heels as tall as Ben Nevis, and blisters to match. A bottle if Iodine would be useful to treat the blisters, the sting of which would encourage them to wear more sensible shoes in future.
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