Porty People and Places

Janus - the Roman God - who some think gave his name to this month of January.

Janus, famously, looks forward and reflects backwards and is seen as an agent of conciliation at the end of conflict.  

We sure need more of that sense of reconciliation in our increasingly polarised world today.

One of Portobello's High Street Christmas Lights is stubbornly refusing  to be extinguished and blazes on beyond the Twelfth Night.