Merry Christmas
I just got an email from an old family friend back in England providing some detail to the village Christmas Eve celebrations ahead which seemed to revolve heavily around time spent with friends in pubs drinking ale. Another reminder of home and the differences between England and the USA. This Christmas is looking to be a white Christmas for all of us in New England and England alike and as a toast to our old family friend I am going to crack into my Kentish Best Bitter this evening with friends at an annual tradition of our own, the Sheer family Christmas Eve party. Merry Christmas one and all and drink responsibly.
‘Twas Christmas broach’d the mightiest ale; ’twas Christmas told the merriest tale; a Christmas gambol oft could cheer the poor man’s heart through half the year. – Sir Walter Scott, Scottish Novelist and Poet
