Christmas Cheer

This was the brightest, most colourful scene in an otherwise colourless grey day.  Cold weather coming in later this week.

That's Friedrich Engels with arms folded.  I wonder what he would have made of the capitalist activity buzzing around him.  Mind you, when he supported his friend Karl Marx during the 1860s, he reportedly always made a point of ensuring the Marx family had the means to celebrate Christmas properly.

"If you could send me a few £ for the Christmas week now beginning, it would be very welcome."  Karl Marx writing to Fredrich Engels.  19 December 1868.