Archive for December, 2019

CHRISTMAS ……….. ACROSS THE OCEANS.

CHRISTMAS ……….. ACROSS THE OCEANS.

You can hear it on the street: “Christmas isn’t what it used to be – it’s all commercially- driven…..blah,blah!”And to read that ‘One in five Brits do not know that Jesus was born on Christmas Day’ (1).Or, the other statistic which quotes: ‘new poll shows 91% of Brits celebrate Christmas ( but just 22% celebrate the birth of Christ’) (2) – so perhaps they have a point….

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LIVERPOOL REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY: 10/11/19.

LIVERPOOL REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY: 10/11/19.

The morning was fine and dry with enough blue sky to make a sailor a pair of pants, as the saying goes.And in front of St George’s Hall, the pipe band of the Liverpool Scottish were playing Green Hills of Tyrol – that lament of a Scottish soldier in the Crimean War. Anyway, it was a full hour ahead of the firing of the…

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