Things to gladden the heart...

...at Christmas...a godchild sending by post in a jiffy-bag a carefully packed star and angel made from clay in a pottery project at school (star now hanging over our crib)...a small girl carefully hanging a tiny torch from the Christmas tree so that its beam lights up the Christ-child in the crib ...a primary school organising a tea party and carols for local elderly people (if they knew what great joy it gave their hearts would glow)...a Salvation Army band in traditinal uniform playing carols with gusto...