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16th December 2023

We hope you have now received enough Christmas cards to make it worthwhile hanging up the card holder or stringing some seasonal clips across the lounge ready to display your haul (to be honest, we never took it down last year). With postal prices rising, some people are no longer sending cards, and those Charity Card displays in church halls have moved online, sadly.

Looking at the cards we have, it seems that glitter has survived its supposed EU ban (thanks Terry for including bonus glitter in the envelope), and robins and country cottages are popular themes this year. No doubles yet!

In the news we have seen pictures of politicians/celebrity Christmas cards:




and for balance, from 2022:


Here's a comic song about getting Christmas cards, from Cantabile. We sang this at our school Carol Concert this year!


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