Thoughts from, and the lives of a Canadian and a Brit living in Southern England.

Tag Archives: Christmas

Measuring the National Mood

David Cameron is spending loads of money trying to gauge the happiness of the peoples of the UK. Seriously, he doesn’t need to spend all this money, there is a simple way to gauge the mood of a nation – how early do the Christmas decorations go up… After a drought that became one ofContinue Reading

Christmas Pictures

I’ve uploaded a few pictures of our family Christmas get together to Flickr, including quite a few pictures that will probably leave Lucy with a Christmas tree phobia for life… Unfortunately the sleeping bag is a little big for her now, and will be way too small come next year… Also as a special treatContinue Reading

Record Breaking Numbers?

We’re in the middle of the busiest time at St James. Last night was the traditional Nine Lessons and Carols service, that had a record breaking 302 people attend – with people stood packed into the vestry, and stood in the North Aisle – apparently it got so hot in the building that the organContinue Reading

Christmas Card

So opening up the post this morning, this was one of the Christmas Cards… Can’t think why they chose this particular card… Nor made the added comment in biro… Nope… No, not at all…Continue Reading

The Feast of the Pharaohs

Last night was my office Christmas party – this year going along to the Feast of the Pharaohs, this years version of the big party that the Christmas Company hold out at Easthampstead Park every year. We’d been along to one of these a couple of years ago when the theme was Cirque Noel soContinue Reading