Happy New Year

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Happy New Year to you all. I wish you everything you wish yourselves in the year to come. Have a safe New Year and a good 2012.....


Until next time, take care...Hugs Chrissy xx

Merry Christmas

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'Silent Night, Holy Night
All is calm, all is bright

Round yon virgin mother and child

Holy infant so tender and mild

Sleep in heavenly peace

Sleep in heavenly peace'

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Hello to you all on Christmas Eve. After a busy few weeks with my family I now have time to wish you all a Merry Christmas....

As I write this post I am listening to 'Silent Night', a carol that sends out the true meaning of Christmas regardless in what language it is sung. I always feel a common link with mankind when I hear it, all conflicts and disharmany dissolve for a moment in time. And it is in that spirit that I wish Peace and Goodwill to all mankind...

It will be towards the Christmas star that many a child will look tonight in anticipation of seeing Father Christmas....but before he comes however the children will be busily preparing for his visit. Stockings will be hung, milk and cookies left and before going up the wooden stairs to Bedfordshire a quite moment around the tree...

Off to bed is soon called for because as all good children know, if you are not asleep then Father Christmas will not come!!! Excited giggles and whispering accompany the girls and boys to bed with images in their heads of Santa's sleigh riding over the rooftops. Will Rudolf be leading the other reindeer this Christmas Eve? What special gifts will santa's sack hold, waiting to be delivered while they are asleep in their beds....

I remember many a Christmas Eve such as this, both as a child and a mother. Now I can experience it again through my grandchildren. My son will read 'The Night before Christmas' to his children as I did to him....So for children everywhere, I hope you have a magical Christmas....

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all....Hugs Chrissy xx


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'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house

Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,

In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.

The children were nestled all snug in their beds,

While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads'

~ Clement Clarke Moore ~

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Books Through The Eyes Of A Child....

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Hello from a very wet and blustery night here in Cornwall. The type of weather to stay indoors by a blazing fire and read a good book. Talking about books brings to mind my grandees who stayed with me for ten days and naturally story time was the order of the day...

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As a child I loved books and still do. My mother always used to say 'Are you going to get your head out of that book'..lol..

Among my many books I am fortunate to still have some of my books from childhood. I would like to share some of them with you here...

Who doesn't know the story of Cinderella? Many years later I was to play her in a hospital pantomime!!

Just so everyone knew the book was mine I wrote my name and address in my childhood books. Wouldn't do it now though....

How scary was that wolf!!!

This is my granddaughter's favourite at the moment

Good old Brer Rabbit..

These four books were given to me one Christmas and as you can see I read them many times...

I may just read this book to start Christmas

Who remembers Tufty? Written inside this book was 'Christine Doyle from Mummy and Daddy 14-2-64. Happy Birthday darling'

Stories and fairy tales were not the only books I read!!!

Another favourite of mine. I also got to play Dick Whittington in another hospital pantomime...

The three books below were another present one Christmas from my parents....

Inside 'Christine Doyle Xmas 1962'

Looking through these books have transported me back in time to the child I was. How I treasured these books and for a moment in time I am that child again....

My old school reading book

I remember this story

This is certainly apt this evening

My old friend Hans....

Due to my passion for books I have collected many books over the years and so naturally have added to my library of children's books.....

Here's Brer Rabbit again...

My son loved this tale...

Why, it's Noddy and Big Ears...

This is a very old book...

A Classic Enid Blyton..

This is a beautiful book...

I was lucky to find this book. I can remember sitting down in the morning waiting for 11 am for 'Listen with Mother' to begin. I can hear it as if it was yesterday 'Are you sitting comfortably, the I'll begin'.....

Did any of these books take you down Memory Lane? Until next time, take care...Hugs Chrissy...