Christmas Preparations

Christmas preparations are beginning to pick up speed. Yesterday I sorted out all the Christmas Music and Carols for the Church Services and the Male Voice Choir Concerts. Today it was the turn of selecting and purchasing Christmas Cards.

For a goodly number of years now Dot and I have made a point of purchasing Christmas Cards which support a Charity. We had looked at the various non charitable cards which were produced and found it hard to believe that Christmas is about the birth of Baby Jesus. You can get cards with Robins, Holly, Ivy, Mistletoe, Christmas Trees, Snow Scenes, Presents, Baubles, Lights - in fact just about anything that shows the materialistic and non religious side of Christmas, but have you tried to get any religious cards this year??? They are rarer than hen's teeth!

I'm just about to put the finishing touches to my Christmas Newsletter, which is sent to all my ex staff and one or two other people who we haven't seen during the year. This usually runs to about 8 sides of A4 paper (including photographs), and goodness knows how long it would take to write if I had to write each copy!