by Bernadette Nason | Dec 9, 2012 | Uncategorized
Most single expatriates in Dubai celebrated Christmas Day with their friends in apartments or villas. My own favorite took place in a true Middle Eastern house with a large, central, stone-paved courtyard sheltered by willowy palm trees. All the rooms, including the...
by Bernadette Nason | Dec 8, 2012 | Uncategorized
THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS is an English Christmas carol, first published in 1780.No Christmas would be complete without it! Here’s a fine version by The Chipmunks:http://youtu.be/Q8Jbi-BBp3c On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to meA partridge in a...
by Bernadette Nason | Dec 7, 2012 | Uncategorized
A short post today because the photo says it all. Life was simpler back in the early 1960s. Everything connected with Christmas is on top of, alongside, or in front of the radiogram. Christmas Tree – check Creche with the Angel Gabriel on top – check Fruit...
by Bernadette Nason | Dec 6, 2012 | Uncategorized
1984, then, was to be my first Christmas out of England, actually my first Christmas not spent in the family home, and I hadn’t missed Christmas church in my 27 years on Earth. Alright then. I’d make a real effort to create some kind of festive feeling. Libya being...
by Bernadette Nason | Dec 5, 2012 | Uncategorized
There was once a shoemaker, who worked very hard and was very honest: but still he could not earn enough to live upon; and at last all he had in the world was gone, save just leather enough to make one pair of shoes. Then he cut his leather out, all ready to make up...
