Father Christmas and Covid-19

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A few days before Christmas, we all wrapped up warm and went for a stroll around the village to admire the Christmas lights. The various lights and Christmas displays seemed to be more prevalent than ever this year. There were icicle lights, twinkling stars, light strings around windows and draped over trees and looping from fences and lamp-posts. There were shining trees, rainbow arches, sparkly reindeer and polar bears and penguins, inflatable glowing snowmen and Santas. There were gnomes and elves, multi-coloured Christmas trees, sleighs, stars, and a few other things that we couldn’t always quite work out (still trying to decide what could have been the decoration that looked like an illuminated headless Babygro). We had fun trying to be the first to spot a particular object and shout it out. The one that made me laugh most though was the one in the picture. As we approached, my partner asked ‘Why is Father Christmas bringing toilet paper?’ Then we realised that it was meant to be his list of who was ‘naughty or nice’! Obviously the whole Covid situation and the headlines about panic buying have warped our way of thinking! All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2021.