Merry Christmas, Mr Scrooge
In the bottom left of the above collage is the RSC Christmas tree. In recent times, it has become a tradition to visit our second home in Badby in December (not to mention many other times in the year) for a “Secret Santa” weekend and include a visit to whatever the Royal Shakespeare Company are staging as their Christmas show.
Want and Ignorance
This year the RSC staged A Christmas Carol, a David Edgar adaptation of Charles Dickens’s novel. Aiden Gillet was a volatile, vulnerable Ebenezer Scrooge (played in the same production last year by the snarly and ultimately adorable Phil Davis.) Joseph Timms played an energetic, angry and moving Charles Dickens whose efforts to write a story about Want and Ignorance conflicted with his publishers’ desire to give the public a heartwarming comical tale.
Plenty and Enough
It seems perverse and hypocritical in some ways to delve into Dickens’s world of sympathy for the vulnerable and yet enjoy and celebrate my own wonderful Plenty – plenty presents, plenty treats, plenty food, plenty drink…. But that’s the Way of the World. Take action when you can; give where you feel able; have compassion always.
Blenheim Palace
The unusual thing we did this year was attend the Blenheim Palace Illuminated Lights Walk, a busy but magical experience. There were extraordinary colour-changing waterfalls of light, neon tunnels, fairy trails and aerial poppy-themed paths.
Bright Lights for Winter Nights
Penguins, Snowmen, Bridges, Chalets, a Gingerbread House, a giant Lotus on the lake, tree trunks looking like pantomime stage sets and bulb after bulb flooding the winter night with colour sensations.
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