[JenB]

White lights sparkling on snow-covered houses... seems almost Dickensian to me.

[Sam Cree]

My daughter and some of her friends drove over to Skineateles a couple days ago, where this time of year, lots of the towns folk dress from a Christmas Carol, and kind of put on a show. Being downwind from Lake Ontario, it always has a snow cover by now.

Funny, I doubt London does, but in Dickens' time, I guess we were still in the Little Ice Age, and perhpas London did, in those days, often have white Christmases.

I continue to kind of like the Victorian era.

I also like Dylan Thomas' Christmas poem, or prose, or whatever it was. I enjoyed the corny movie that was made of it.