Christmas 2010

Not an article today, just a short thing to wish you all a merry Christmas from what was, as yesterday at any rate, a decidedly balmy Mallorca and to thank you all for coming to the blog. The first ever blog entry was 1 November 2005 (on the original Blogger version), so this is the sixth Christmas.

And as is now traditional at Christmas time, below is a thing that I don’t know I can do better, so I just repeat it. Also as is traditional, for some reason, a song that seems right for Christmas and it is damn good; so once again, “To The Country”. And also something new. I heard The Pierces performing this and it was superb. In the absence of a YouTube with The Pierces, here are the Casting Crowns with “I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day”. A bit religious for my taste, the Casting Crowns, but it’s still rather charming.

Have a great Christmas, everyone.

“At night the sky is a magician’s show. The heavenly stars glow and vibrate. It is close to freezing, and one can almost imagine snow, the saw-teeth of holly and a choir of all is calm, all is bright. As the evening becomes tomorrow, the road is silent. The pines at the edge of Albufera appear as genial fluffy clouded puff-monsters silhouetted in the darkness. A night bird calls. And the power station throbs, a lowing cow by a distant manger. There goes a late plane across the speckled blackness and now a shooting star. It races from nowhere and disappears as quickly as it arrived. And once again it is silent, a silent night, and the heavenly stars twinkle on, and maybe that shooting star was something, someone, else. Who knows? Maybe it was him, a bearded man with large boots.”

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