Tag: Celebration
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Thoughts from the New Year Weekend

I’d intended to post this (or something like it!) on Monday, the day after the New Year Weekend, and then use it as a template for a new regular feature here on the blog, to focus on the more unusual events that happen over the weekend. Factual or fictional, it matters not – especially around…
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It is Christmas Eve at last!

Yay! Time now to start chilling! Deck the halls with boughs, etc.! Here’s wishing you a Merry Christmas!
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The Sound of Summer! The Results!
Drum roll please! Special thanks to Sunny and Chair for beginning today’s posts. Did any of you get the musical clue? Did you realise it was linked to today’s Sound of Summer result post? The painting was a little cryptic in the fact that there was no water visible from the beach, but that body…
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Catching Casanova
Giacomo Casanova (1725 – 1798). Ish. Picture the scene. It’s the mid-eighteenth century. We’re in Italy; Venice, actually. The Carnival is coming to its close. Noble folk (and lesser-noble for that matter!) are all partying like it’s 1999. All are dressed in elaborate clothing, wearing stunning full masks, some with head-dresses made out of the…
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Christmas Wish: 2015
May your time be joyous, special and just how you like it. May your Angels be with you, guide you and bring you peace. May your memories bring you comfort, and your joy, new memories. And may this wish be for all, for all time, and not only for Christmas.