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Category Archives: Traditions

Christmas tree goes up

Hauled from the deepest, darkest reaches of the loft, about a dozen battered cardboard boxes, of varying size filled the living room.  Each bearing scars from the annual application of parcel tape, and aggressive relocation from loft to living room, and back again. The Christmas tree  - split between two boxes – was soon strewn [...]

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A white December, open your #adventcalendar

It’s 1st December today and there’s snow on the ground. Certainly adds to the feeling that Christmas is just around the corner. There was a time when today would have sparked huge excitement as the first door on the advent calendar is prised open. If you were lucky there would be a chocolate hiding behind [...]

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