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Merry Christmas from the People's Republic of Portobello!

There's nothing quite like sunshine on Christmas Day! Dr T and I are feeling a little better (many thanks for all your kind wishes) and have had a lovely, quiet, gentle day of pressies, a stroll along the prom and a meal of our favourite foods.  Oh, and Strictly!

Before signing off I must tell you about last night's Community Carols and Watch Night Service.  The first half hour is made up of Christmas songs like Rudolph and a mad version of Twelve Days of Christmas.  Because it was such a big year for Scotland we had a MacQuiz with prizes like a macaroon, a Tunnocks Tea Cake and a can of Irn Bru (which I won).

The Watch Night Service was very moving.  A choir of solely male voices sang Silent Night - the first verse in German, the second in English and the third with both languages - as a reflection of the Christmas Day Truce football game in 1914.  As a former historian, I've found much of this year's commemoration of WWI problematic, but the choir had me in tears.     

Wishing you all a peaceful Christmas.