For it is always Dickens in December on a cold winter's night

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". . . for it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself."  



- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol.

"There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories - Ghost Stories, or more shame for us - round the Christmas fire; and we have never stirred, except to draw a little nearer to it."  




- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Tree.








Our cold, quiet Christmas of 2012



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