Next Friday (when my blog post would usually come out) will be Christmas Eve. What do you mean, you knew that already? It snuck up on me so fast I can hardly believe it. That’s the trouble with retailers starting the run-up to Christmas in October – I just blank it because It’s obviously not going to happen for ages and then I suddenly realise that it’s here.
Anyway, I think you will have better things to do next week than read my blog – at least I hope so (unless Boris Johnson has another cruel trick up his sleeve and we’re all stuck at home desperately looking something to occupy ourselves). So today’s blog is just to wish you all the very best of Christmases. I think we all deserve that after last year.
My Christmas picture is from the Astors’ private chapel at Cliveden, one of the places we were able to go to as the country finally started to open up again. We’d never been there before but the grounds are amazing and I do recommend a visit.
Anyway, that’s it from my blog for 2021. I’ve published something every week (sometimes twice a week) right through the year and now I’m taking my annual break. Stay safe, stay well, and I’ll see you next year (when there will be another James Burke book to entertain you).
Have a wonderful Christmas (or midwinter Festival of your choice).
Best Wishes for a splendid Christmas and a happy and healthy 2022 – Antoine
For the first time ever, this year, I’ve been doing the shopping thing for months. Since January, every time I saw something I liked and thought someone else might too, I’ve bought it – a couple of hardbacks of photos taken by a New York cabbie in the 1970s (spotted on Twitter), ceramics seen via Twitter on Etsy, unusual scented candles in a shop in Tynemouth in September, calendars of abandoned places made by one of my #PostApocFriday group – you name it! By October, I had heaps. Which means I’ve had lots of boxes and bags in the living room for the last two months – but sitting down in the middle and deciding who was having what was fun, and it was so much better than getting to Dec 1 and think, oh no, what am I going to get for ANYONE????!
I hope you have lovely one and everything works out for you xxx
Thank you. And to you and yours.