Category Archives: Christmas

A Christmas Wish

  However, wherever or whether you celebrate Christmas, may this day bring you peace, love and joy and may all the gifts of the season be with you, now and always.  

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Christmas Eve…

There is a story on the radio… some ghostly tale or other. I never really understood why we tell ghost stories at Christmas. I know it is traditional, but I was never sure how far back it went. I’d done … Continue reading

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Best #midnighthaiku

Celebrations loom The best ever Christmas tree? Decorate with love More than any gift Presence of those we cherish Making Christmas bright  

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Ani’s Advent 2020! – Pondering

Dear Santa,  I’m a little dog who doesn’t do religion. I’d rather chase a tennis ball or terrorise a pigeon Than argue over who is wrong or maybe who is right… It seems a silly way to me to get … Continue reading

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A Sweet Dilemma

I go to the supermarket as seldom as possible at the best of times… and the run-up to Christmas does not constitute the best of times by any stretch of the imagination. Head down, I charged to the pharmacy aisle … Continue reading

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Ani’s Advent 2020! – A Visit

Dear Santa… This year is all a bit weird. This coronavirus malarkey is upsetting everyone and keeping them apart, especially when they want and need to be together. I’m pretty sure, if you could manage it, taking the bug away … Continue reading

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Celebrating the Light

“May you be blessed With the spirit of the season, which is peace, The gladness of the season, which is hope, And the heart of the season, which is love.” Irish blessing. It is the Christmas season. It has been … Continue reading

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Ani’s Advent 2020!- Mary Smith tells of Christmas in Karachi…

Dear Santa, We all make friends, in lots of different ways. Some of us make loads of friends… and others just a few really good ones. You know lots of people… two legs and four… and probably know more than … Continue reading

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Lucky

There are few photographs of my years in Paris. The camera I had back then was minimal, film expensive to process and anyway, postcards did a far better job that I could ever do. It doesn’t matter. Back then it … Continue reading

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Ani’s Advent 2020! Homespun Magic with Anita Dawes

Dear Santa, I heard her talking today about things she wants to do for Christmas. They aren’t big things, just little ones. And some of them, I can’t even eat… She wants to make and bake all the things she … Continue reading

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