A Curious Time

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This is turning out to be a very curious Christmas Day, indeed. Rituals broken, we seem slightly adrift; distanced from festivities and sentiments normally set in lockstep to the hours of the Day over years of practice and tradition.  It may well be that the last year has drifted so far from the usual and that the leaders we normally look to for certainty and guidance have been so lost in a sea of fantasy and lies of their own making that the cosy dreamworld that is a normal Christmas now seems bland by comparison: almost as if we have a collective need to wake from the confected, infected nightmare that has been the last twelve months.

I hope everyone out there is able to make something of the day and maybe, just maybe; next year we will be able to immerse ourselves in the warm bath that is a 'normal' Christmas Day: the one day of the year when the world outside should be put on hold, if only at least for a few hours: sadly, this year it has been impossible to mute the clamour and noise of Covid and Brexit in order that we can indulge the fantasy of Christmas Day. Anyhow - a Merry Christmas to one and all, despite it all.

Image - October this year, before everything shut down again...The Victoria Hotel, Menai Bridge, Ynys Môn; sadly shut, probably until March next year. Once this is all over, or at least under some level of control, please visit this place and stay, eat or stay and eat. This endorsement is not paid for - I'm just a long-term (more than a quarter of a century) patron.


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