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24th December
Dec. 24th, 2025 12:51 pmAnd so we reach the end of Advent, or at least the last photo I'm posting. This is the crib in our other church (we have two in the parish, one built when it became legal in Victorian times and the other a modern one to serve the new housing estates that doubles the size of the town.)
23rd December
Dec. 23rd, 2025 08:49 pmNearly ready for Christmas in the late 70s. It's from the archive and I'm wondering what was actually in those parcels. I see a bottle on the left.
22nd December
Dec. 23rd, 2025 05:54 pmThe flowers and foliage are coming into church ready for the flower team to start making the Christmas displays. Our contribution is always the holly. Most years it's a competition between the birds and the flower team as to who gets the berries. This year we don't seem to have any birds in the garden, I assume because of the outbreaks of bird flu which is killing so many of them. The the church has the best branches of berries than they have had for years.
4th Sunday in Advent
Dec. 21st, 2025 06:33 pmI like having a set of Advent candles every year, even thought I don't light the candles in case they set fire to the artificial flowers, ribbon and the greenery.
20th December
Dec. 21st, 2025 06:19 pmThese are some of our festoons, we like festoons an put some up every year. And now the BBC is telling me that they are very fashionable this year. The latest look for your decorations is Retro apparently, meaning the 80's and 90's. And here was me thinking 50's and 60's.
Heated Rivalry
Dec. 20th, 2025 12:32 pmIs anyone else watching the HBO Max series Heated Rivalry? OMG, it's an a boy meets boy on the ice. Hockey love, people! It's very explicit, but it's more than that. As it goes along, there's an actual intimate relationship that develops, something more than just sex. I'm frankly impressed by how well it's written and acted. Love the two leads.
I have to say I was rather surprised that they've actually developed it beyond the sex scenes. It's a very slashy romance.
I have to say I was rather surprised that they've actually developed it beyond the sex scenes. It's a very slashy romance.
19th December
Dec. 19th, 2025 05:36 pmIsn't this a beautiful piece of art decorating the window of a business in the town centre? I don't think it's a commercial transfer, it looks more like it's airbrushed directly onto the glass. I think it may be a tanning studio, and if one of their staff did draw it they are very talented.
18th December
Dec. 18th, 2025 05:54 pmThese were lights in Lichfield. I always liked looking at them as I walked back to the car after the December meetings of Lichfield Science and Engineering Society. But they weren't there last year. In fact the Three Spires Shopping Centre had very few lights up at all, nothing that needed a ladder in fact.
17th December
Dec. 17th, 2025 09:55 pmI knitted a set of crib figures in 2018. It was for the small children at church to play with and learn the nativity story. But they all vanished during lockdown which is a shame. A lot of things got lost during lockdown with no one allowed to take care of them.
16th December
Dec. 16th, 2025 11:24 pmSome of my glass baubles in storage. I don't know how old these baubles are, I believe they were most probably bought in 1952 for the first Christmas my parents had in their own house, so 73 years old. And still in their original cardboard box.
And yes, I do still use them every year.
And yes, I do still use them every year.