A Chinese blessing recalls that "round the table peace and joy prevail. May all who share this seasons delight enjoy countless more". A particularly apt blessing for this time of year. We have been round the table, eating turkey with all the trimmings. Christmas pudding and crackers. The Christmas tree has been put up, decorated and taken down just before Twelfth Night. The Christmas cards have arrived, been inwardly digested and now fed up with all the glitter on the floor which falls from them they are reglegated to the recycling bin. Christmas has passed by for another year. The advertisements on the tv have invited us to order a new suite for Christmas delivery , 0% finance and if we did not want that we could try ordering one for Boxing Day with nothing to
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