Sometimes life just takes over and, unsurprisingly, Christmas has once more been one of those times. Fortunate to be away for Christmas, we hadn’t had to lay in siege stocks of food, deck the house with boughs of greenery nor provide house room for  copious amounts of wrapping paper, sellotape , etc. Yet still did […]

  Christmas morning found us at the local parish church in Beckenham in Kent, an unspoilt red brick building with more than a hint of the Arts and Crafts movement about it.  About 50 people gathered in the choir rather than in the body of the church which made for a feeling of greater involvement […]