I guess it’s time to wish everybody a very Merry Christmas – wherever you are in the world Season’s Greetings to you. Christmas lunch this year will be made at home in London: a nice peaceful Christmas. Last night we spent several hours in the bars towards the City and had a very peaceful time sitting next to an open fire, drinking expensive Bloody Marys and laughing with friends. A very good way to end the working year. Next week I am working from home but I am not expecting it to be too busy.

I’ve admitted before that I love the whole Christmas vibe. Actually, I love the whole stereotypical, christmas card vibe rather than the rushed reality. Each year I buy a new decoration for the tree and this is the one I found for this year. Truthfully, a friend of mine had one and I copied her but I couldn’t resist the whole Santa-on-skis image – it’s far too cute for words. See, I’m just soppy for Christmas!

Jon's note: The December 2004 version of this blog, which can be seen here, didn't put post titles on the main page and that's were most of the blog would have been read (by the few people who did read it). So I have absolutely no idea why I used the year 2005 in the post title. I check the Wayback Machine archives to ensure something strange had not happened. The closest I can get is an archive from February 2005 which clear shows this entry in the previous Christmas. 

On this day…

• 2002: Happy Christmas