And so this is Christmas
I hope you have fun
The near and the dear one
The old and the young
Taken from the song Merry Xmas (war is over) by John Lennon and Yoko, with the Harlem Community Choir, in 1971.
A brief unpause from my break as I wanted to share with you some of my favourite Christmas photographs that have arrived so far. A Merry Christmas to you all and see you at some point soon 🙂
Hi everyone. I just wanted to let you all know that i will be having a break away from my blog for a while. There are quite a few things I need to be getting on with. I will definitely be back. Thanks for understanding.
My mother was attracted by the vibrant display when at a stand in the handicrafts market of San Juan in the centre of Mexico City.
‘There’s one indelible memory in my head – the day that changed my life. It was during the Blitz and I was only about ten. Mum said, “Quick, get in the air-raid shelter” and she literally threw my sister and I in and laid over us like a hen with her chicks. Our house had a direct hit and it took four and a half hours to dig us out.
‘When we got out we were just standing there and my father came round the corner on a bicycle he’d borrowed from somewhere. My mother was crying. I remember the skies were red with fires and my mother said to my father, “We’ve lost everything. Everything’s gone.” He said, “No, I’ve just done a head count. We’ve got everything we’ll ever need.” That moment, I think, changed the rest of my life.
Singer and entertainer Des O’Connor in an interview with Daily Mail journalist Rebecca Hardy.
The interior patio of the National Palace at the Zocalo Square in Mexico City.
And they love me for the same reason they used to hate me, because I’m the guy who knows everything.
Herbie Stemple (John Turturro) in the Robert Redford-directed film Quiz Show (1994).
Alex Raphael 