Twas The Night Before

Wreath

There's a point when it looks like Christmas is going to falter. The sky is darkening into night, people are making their way home and the shutters are starting to fall on the evening.

Barred Star

All the half-planning, the buying and the rushing look like they will end in nothing and Christmas will not materialize. You are alone in the dark.

Ice Lights

Then a small point of light throws it all into focus


Christmas will arrive


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Christmas!

Boxing Day

I felt a fraud
Boxing Day had passed into Boxing Day Night and I hadn't boxed,
I hadn't even punched the air!
Looking at it obliquely, I hadn't packaged anything either. Nor had I even broken down a box at work which would have allowed me the opportunity to say I had deconstructed Boxing Day, a semblance of engagement.
But, there you have it. Boxing Day had gone and I hadn't boxed.


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Christmas!

Christmas Day

Some b*st*rd broke into our house last night!

They came in via the chimney, There were black bootprints all across the carpet (a mans I'd say).

They had it away with all the mince pies and drank my sherry and what's more, they even raided the kitchen and took vegetables! Well, some carrots were missing...

They spread boxes all around the front room making a right mess I can tell you.

Well, If I catch him I'm going to hang him up by his chestnuts and roast him over an open fire.


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Christmas!

Christmas Eve...

'twas the night before Christmas
And all through the flat
Not a creature was stirring
Not even a rat...


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It's Really Almost Here...

The Snow Castle
at
Cribbs Causeway, Bristol

I really thought it was snowing for a second or two...

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It's snowing! Oh, no it's not, I thought it was

It's Almost Here!

Sky Lights

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It's Coming...

Snowflakes

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Christmas is coming...

Christmas was coming
Geese were clapping on weight like there was no tomorrow
And hats were full of assorted coinage from all the four corners of the globe.
It mattered not that one had neither low denomination currency
Nor the lowest denomination, currently in circulation and legal tender itself
For God in his heaven would shower his beneficence, like the snow that would surely fall
On all.


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Christmas is coming...

Concentric Christmas

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Christmas is coming...

Gold Flake
in a
shop window

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Christmas is coming...

Angel Herald

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Hansel und Gretel

At the Christmas Market, Bath England

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Christmas is coming...

Bright Reindeer

Taken in Bath, England

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