Christmas Tree-o!

Firstly, Happy New Year to you all, I hope you have the sort of year that you would wish for yourself.  Secondly, my apologies for the appalling pun in the title.

In my pre-Christmas blog post 'Christmas Stuffing' I set out a plan to write and publish (on here) three seasonal stories.  I did this because I knew it would force me not to be as bone-idle as I am by nature and actually do something in the run-up to Christmas and New Year.  In my relative youth, I used to be a DJ and Christmas and New Year discos were always great fun and exciting and something to plan for.  These days I'm more inclined to be grumpy, glower at the weather and spend all my waking moments criticising T.V. advertising, so anything that drags me out of that slough of despondency is to be welcomed.

Having set myself the challenge of writing three seasonal stories, I'd actually cheated a bit because I already had one done and dusted - 'Christmas Pan-to' - which featured three pieces of kitchen equipment in a hardware shop window discussing that shop's incresingly desperate attempts to be relevant to the season.  Christmas Eve brought my take on the traditional poem about a robin in 'And what did the robin do then...?' and I was delighted when it was awarded Pick of the Day!  Quite the Christmas present   Finally, my New Year's Eve story, 'All The World Before Us' was something of a departure from my usual fare of whimsical humour, probably because I didn't think there was much to laugh about in the transition to 2025.  I'm not sure if anyone's actually got what I was trying to portray in this story,  so I might have been too obtuse for my own good!

So, that's it!  Another seasonal trio of stories wrapped up for another year.  I hope you enjoyed them and, if you haven't sampled them yet, perhaps you'll do so now?  I look forward to trying to do the same at the end of this year (if the Good Lord spares me, as an old acquaintance used to say!) but I'll certainly be carrying on with my Josiah and Archibald series until it reaches its logical conclusion and then, who knows...