Images of Christmas

christmas lunch

Christmas lunch with my grandparents with a sixpence hidden in the pudding !

Family Christmas lunch last year, less formal, no sixpence in the pudding , but still fun !!

Sisters

We look nothing alike,

She came ten years after!

She is generous and caring,

Infuriatingly boring when she is drunk

An angel when she is sober

And life would be very bleak without her !!

My beautiful sister

Window shopping and a very wet Venice!

I am such a lazy blogger, I think it is because when I get inspired , I sometimes suspect that there is nobody out there , anyway this month, I have a wonderful excuse , I have been very busy showing all my relatives and friends around Italy. I am an extremely reluctant tourist and would rather be under the covers on my beautiful soft couch but really having being dragged out to see things I really do love the world around me !

JUST FOR FUN

SMOKING GUN !

I found this fascinating photo of my mother Madeleine, she was a fleet street journalist in the heady era of 'check book journalism ', I have no idea what this strange picture was connected to but I imagine that she was probably writing an article of how woman had become sophisticated smoking in bars and flaunting their new found freedom ! I can also imagine that since she had to rush the article for the Sunday press she used herself for a model and probably charged the newspaper the expenses !!! I really have no idea but I love this, today naughty image !