Tag Archives: Christmas

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…

This is the theme running through my head right now, as I make lists, tick lists, write more lists, tick more, find a list written two weeks ago with something on it that I haven’t ticked yet, remember three more … Continue reading

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Don’t worry about Christmas, be happy

A super-intelligent alien virus, visiting an average British town centre at this time of year, or reclining watching TV with his blobby feet up in the deep moquette of a sofa, might think that Christmas was mostly about products; the … Continue reading

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Day Off

I have a day off today.  Hurrah!!!   It’s about time I blogged but I really haven’t got anything constructive in mind to say.  That’s a great start isn’t it?  How to put readers off in two concise sentences. But … Continue reading

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Winter Wonderland

Well it is, isn’t it? But this means a lot – this was the soundtrack to walking towards immigration in Hong Kong Airport just after Christmas last year, brimming with the anticipation of seeing no 2 son and his girlfriend … Continue reading

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And so this is, er NOT Christmas!

  If you are full of the joys of the forthcoming Christmas season;  if you have just finished wrapping the last on your list of Christmas gifts and fixing home-made little Hobbycraft holly leaves and berries to it;  if you … Continue reading

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