A group of us gathered in Great Yarmouth. We wanted to complete this task, but we couldn't think of any songs that we all knew enough lyrics for. Then we struck on the perfect idea: Happy Birthday To You. Everyone knows the words to that, and it's nice and short. Not that it was anyone's birthday. Unorthodox caroling indeed!

We tried going door-to-door, but the first couple of houses we tried were empty, and we started getting shouted at by some dodgy locals. So we went into the town centre and sang bench to bench instead.

We tried singing Happy Birthday To You, and also Merry Christmas To You using the same tune. We left a gap where the name should go and encouraged the poor people we were singing at to fill in their name, but I don't think anyone did!

After each (awful) performance we held out our Christmas hat for donations. Only once did we get any money - a lovely couple gave us 16p! We then sang at a homeless guy and gave him the 16p...

Heh, we also sang to the staff in the British Heart Foundation Shop, and we had to actually stop them from giving us any money. :)

It was all rather embarrassing, really. Videos below.