Well, it's that time of year and I'm heading off interstate to be with family over the Christmas break. I'll be taking my computer so I'll still be online, but I won't be checking FA regularly and reserve the right to ignore any faves, notes, comments etc. I'll be firmly focused on food, drink and relaxing on the beach.

And of course I want to wish you all a Merry Christmas. Even if you're not christian (hell, I'm an atheist myself, for me Christmas is a purely secular event) I still want to take this opportunity to wish you well and hope that you find peace, pleasure and happiness in times ahead.

I'll close with the passage that got me to love Christmas:

"I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time...as a good time: a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and woman seem by one consent to open up their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people...as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not a race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!"
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens