Christmas arrives

We like this photo. The two shivering boys. The first snow. The yellow school bus. The delighted neighbour shoveling snow.

George and Ruth awaiting the official beginning of Christmas in Barrhead.

Yes, that would be Santa, standing between the firemen on the roof of the Canada Trust Bank in the Main Street awaiting his nervous descent down the fire truck ladder.

How do you think will he manage all those chimneys?

Not our house.

Nor this one.

Not this one either.

Actually, we won't be doing lights this Christmas. Scrooge Johnston (with official backing from Scrooge Strand) won't be putting them up at all this year. It's too early anyway.

'Tis the season to be jolly.