Category Archives: Advent Posts

Wishing everyone a lovely Christmas and festive season, however you choose to spend it. 

I am writing this a few days before Christmas, and wish all my readers and subscribers a lovely Christmas or lovely holiday period, however you spend it. I will be back shortly after the festive period, so stay tuned.

Today marks what would have been my beloved Grandmother’s 110th birthday. Regular readers of this blog will have read various posts about my Grandparents and the families they descended from. I am very proud of them and the achievements they … Continue reading →

The collection of tree ornaments we have, are ones that we bought from our first Christmas together, 30 years ago. As each is hung on the tree a memory is evoked. There are others that were given to us by … Continue reading →

We live in a fast, modern and immediate world which is totally removed from the years of my childhood. What was a treat back then is very much a potentially common occurrence now which rather defeats the object to being … Continue reading →

Last year and in fact for several years previously I had not written a post a day for Advent. Last year though, on 11 December I wanted to post what you are going to read below. It was the post … Continue reading →

The post today is a simple one; it is our Christmas tree for 2022. It is a Balsam Hill, Frosted Fraser Fir. It is decorated with an assortment of decorations that we have bought over the last 30 years.

A few years ago, I stumbled across a rather nice set of mugs made by Spode. Each Christmas, from 1998 until 2004, Spode released one mug featuring a Santa from a different Country. Here they are in more detail: 1998 … Continue reading →