Merry Christmas Everyone

Merry Christmas Everyone

I would like to wish all of the people who read this a very happy Christmas.

May your holiday season be filled with love and laughter, peace and joy.

 

 

Thank you for visiting, thank you for reading, thank you for your support during the past year x

 

The picture is of my 70 year old plastic nativity ... One of the most priceless things I own ... The irreplaceable spirit of Christmas

I leave you with one of my all time favourite poems

Christmas by John Betjeman

The bells of waiting Advent ring,
The Tortoise stove is lit again
And lamp-oil light across the night
Has caught the streaks of winter rain
In many a stained-glass window sheen
From Crimson Lake to Hookers Green.

The holly in the windy hedge
And round the Manor House the yew
Will soon be stripped to deck the ledge,
The altar, font and arch and pew,
So that the villagers can say
'The church looks nice' on Christmas Day.

Provincial Public Houses blaze,
Corporation tramcars clang,
On lighted tenements I gaze,
Where paper decorations hang,
And bunting in the red Town Hall
Says 'Merry Christmas to you all'.

And London shops on Christmas Eve
Are strung with silver bells and flowers
As hurrying clerks the City leave
To pigeon-haunted classic towers,
And marbled clouds go scudding by
The many-steepled London sky.

And girls in slacks remember Dad,
And oafish louts remember Mum,
And sleepless children's hearts are glad.
And Christmas-morning bells say 'Come!'
Even to shining ones who dwell
Safe in the Dorchester Hotel.

And is it true,
This most tremendous tale of all,
Seen in a stained-glass window's hue,
A Baby in an ox's stall ?
The Maker of the stars and sea
Become a Child on earth for me ?

And is it true ? For if it is,
No loving fingers tying strings
Around those tissued fripperies,
The sweet and silly Christmas things,
Bath salts and inexpensive scent
And hideous tie so kindly meant,

No love that in a family dwells,
No carolling in frosty air,
Nor all the steeple-shaking bells
Can with this single Truth compare -
That God was man in Palestine
And lives today in Bread and Wine.

Comments

[Tracey mac]

Thanks for sharing your life with all of us who read your blog hope you both have a blessed christmas from tracet

[Barb in AK]

I hope you and Nigel had a wondrous Christmas! Thank you so much for sharing this marvelous blog with us! I truly look forward to your posts every day!
God bless you!

[Mary D]

Best wishes to ,both Nigel and you, have a great holiday,
Love reading your blog !