WHY I LOVE CHRISTMAS

WHY I LOVE CHRISTMAS

I have always loved Christmas time. I loved it as a child. The excitement of what Santa would bring. I loved it when I was a little older, meeting pals, usually up in Glasgow, for a drink and a catch up before all heading back to our homes and families. The late night Carol Service, usually with Clydebank Burgh Band leading the carols. Then the best ones once I had my own children and having the pleasure of creating that same excitement and cheer in my own home with my wife Celia and our two young daughters. These days as a pensioner, I still look forward to Christmas.

I have been in my other home in Clearwater, Florida for the last couple of months, enjoying the Sun and warmth. In the last couple of weeks our neighbours have been decorating their homes with lights and Christmas Trees are everywhere. It is different, a lot of those Christmas Trees all covered in lights are PALM trees! Despite that their celebrations are very similar to our own, their highlights are their families, from all over, coming together and spending time together. That is what makes it special..

For my wife Celia when she was growing up, getting her family together at Christmas was pretty impossible. ( She was a late baby born nine years after her youngest brother and fifteen years after her oldest brother) She had three brothers all of whom lived abroad, one in the USA, one in Canada, one in London, then France. Her family were similar to many Scots families of the time who suffered the pain of their children emigrating to other countries to build better lives for themselves than Scotland offered due to high unemployment and depression.

It was one of the reasons we bought our home in Clearwater, she now has a brother living a few hundred yards away and another only a few hours away just up,the road. It’s a reunion that must have seemed impossible even a couple of decades ago. We had a Christmas Dinner with them last Sunday, a few days before we fly home to have our own Christmas Dinner with our daughters, and of course the light of my life, my granddaughter Lucie, no longer a small child as she towers above Celia and will soon be a full blown teenager.

We have had a great finish to our year. My youngest daughter Rachel married Lorenzo her childhood sweetheart and partner for eleven years on Halloween this year, a few days before we flew to Florida. It was a truly brilliant wedding with all our family there from North America, France and my sister and all her children and their partners all there. So we have much to be grateful for this year.

You will note above that I write a lot about family. That is because, for me, it forms the centre and most important part of my life. I was fortunate enough to have very loving parents who,remained a big part of my life, and my children’s lives, until they passed some years ago. I miss them but they created the understanding I have that family are important. I am close to my sister and her children as well and as my niece is pregnant and due any day it will be a magical time for my sister and her husband Bill as they become grandparents for the very first time. Having waited a while for this happy event, my nephew’s partner is also pregnant with their new arrival that is due early February 2023 so my sister will pass me on the grandchildren front very quickly.

Anyway I wish all readers of this blog and their families a very Happy Christmas and a Good New Year, hopefully one that moves Scotland forward in a positive fashion. We have a lovely country, there is so much more we could do given the freedom to make all our decisions for ourselves

My New Year resolution is to do all I can to help bring that about, yes for my family and friends but also for all the new families, as yet unborn, who deserve the opportunity to rule in their own land without interference and plundering by their colonial neighbour..

Excepting emergencies this will be the last post on this blog until Christmas 2022 has passed.

I am, as always

Yours for Scotland

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