The bells are ringing for Christmas

 

A card from five years ago

It is almost upon us, and then it will be over.  My card, which I am reusing by the way, features the bottom of the garden in the house we once lived in.  You can see the little stone building in the church yard.  It has a small middle hatch on the frontage which took the coal for the church.  Next to it in the garden is the holly tree.  Each year David and Jo would cut branches off it for the church and as the picture mists over there is the green leaves of the Ceanothus peeping over.  Bees and the Ceonothus's symbiotic togetherness one year in the following video.  Did I say I love bumblebees?  Be warned. Very unsteady hand hold and a lot of grass at the end!

The family have arrived, well at least Ben and Matilda, Tom will come on Xmas Eve.  Ben and Matilda caught the same train but it was two trains coupled together so they sat apart.

I wish everyone a Happy Christmas with family and a good New Year.

Also I wish that wars will come to an end and that the poor people of Ukraine, Syria and Gaza are allowed to renew their countries once more. 

xxx