December 2025. Waterbeach.
Back at Sunnyside to see Dad in his care home, greeted by the smile that melts your heart, and feeling rather jealous of his meat balls lunch while we survive on meal deals from Tesco.
It’s useful to keep in touch with the dozens of folk who know Dad, so we popped to the exhibition of Nativity sets at the Salvation Army, put on by a Mum and Daughter I’ve known my whole life.
This collection stretches back decades and covers the Whole Wide World, a bit like a Wreckless Eric song or my blog views map.
2,374 views from the Philippines, so this is for them.
Waterbeach punches above its weight, home to two breweries, some of the UK’s best world cuisine, a leading hyacinth festival, and this ultimate display of nativity scenes (and Beryl Cook print).
It’s been great to see folk in Kyrgyzstan read my posts on Golden Hours in Kinghorn,
so here’s Kyrgyzstan’s gorgeous contribution.
Not sure where this next one’s from, but it’s possibly my favourite;
Christmas, a time for making peace with your neighbours,
even if they started it.
Or perhaps not, yet.
As the song goes…
retiredmartin 
That is obviously a family scene from Newark Northgate.
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These pieces are so interesting! Laughed at … even if neighbs started it – they ALWAYS start it 😀
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I saw Wreckless Eric do a small acoustic show in a pub last year.
Brilliant!
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Voice still as gravelly ?
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More so
Lemmy with a cold.
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Wow.
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I wonder how many of those clicks from Faroe Islands and Kyrgystan are actually disguised Kremlin bots and nuclear subs sitting on the bed of the north sea. Not in that order, obv. You get the drift.
Love those nativity variants on Matryoshka dolls, though. The smallest one is where the transmitter is hidden, if past experience is anything to go by.
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It’s the readers from Sheffield you need to worry about, Will, the ones changing pub crawls into artisanal curated discovery sessions.
It’s always the second one from the left you have to watch out for in my experience. That might be teddy bears though.
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Decades ago we took our kids to DisneyWorld. It was before a holiday and the park was fairly empty. We got on It’s A Small World, finished, stayed on, finished, stayed on….
I discovered a new form of torture, and never want to hear that song again.
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I love it, Dan, bought the record.
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“December 2025. Waterbeach.”
(looks up at pic)
Well, Norway does get cold enough that your skin could turn to a brittle glass-like thingy.
“greeted by the smile that melts your heart,”
Hold onto that.
“so we popped to the exhibition of Nativity sets at the Salvation Army, put on by a Mum and Daughter I’ve known my whole life.”
Look at you being all… Christmassy.
“This collection stretches back decades and covers the Whole Wide World
(looks up at pic)
Why do they all have spiders on their foreheads?
“It’s been great to see folk in Kyrgyzstan read my posts on Golden Hours in Kinghorn,”
(looks down)
Blimey. There’s at least 19 folks living in the Faroe Islands?
“so here’s Kyrgyzstan’s gorgeous contribution.”
At least they’re dressed warmly.
“Not sure where this next one’s from, but it’s possibly my favourite;”
Definitely a warmer climate than Kyrgyzstan.
“As the song goes…”
Gah! Now I have that song stuck in my head.
Cheers
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I think there’s actually 17 folk in the Faroes but one of them read my post on the Hare & Hounds 3 times.
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At least 19 sheep though. That must be suitably festive.
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I can understand that. I mean, what else is there to do up there?
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