In Heaven the postit notes will be great – they won’t fall off !

So you put 6 women in a room, and ask them to look at a passage in Revelation and somehow inevitably the discussion goes crazy.

We started off talking about sheep and goats. So far so good.

The sheep and the goats will be divided. Most people would probably move on from here but after about 10 minutes of discussion we were still working out the best way to distinguish the two species. It was decided that actually checking their tails to distinguish them would be easier than making cheese from all of them and tasting it. Not to mention a whole lot quicker. We just have to hope that they wouldn’t be pegged up by their tails, because once you unpegged them they’d probably run off.

Then of course there’s purgatory to discuss – I’ve struggled for a long time to care much about whether purgatory exists – after all it shouldn’t change how I live now anyway. But finally, an analogy that makes a kind of sense – once the sheep and the goats have been divided there’s the sheep dip to pass through...

And then there are the gates of heaven to provide a photo opportunity.

And all that was interspersed with singing the theme tune from the Poddington peas. (Heaven is perfect, Eden was perfect. There are peas in gardens. Honestly, there's logic in there somewhere.)

Down at the bottom of the garden,
Among the birds and the bees,
A little lot of little people,
They call the Poddington Peas.

There’s Creepy, Black Eye Pea and Dumpy.
Keep it a secret now please.
There’s Zippy, Happy and there’s Sweepy.
And all the Poddington Peas!

The Poddington Peas!

How on earth we’re going to turn any of this into a sensible session for the young people next week is a problem for Friday when we try to plan it before spending all evening watching Red Dwarf. This isn't going to get any more sensible is it...?