Christmas in our household (Tier 2, Tier 3 on Boxing Day) has come with minimal trappings this year, Christmas cards slipped between books on the bookshelf being the main attraction, along with a couple of pretty red origami stars fashioned out of a thin layer of wood on the mantlepiece. On Christmas Day, presents from […]

Three angels for this year’s Christmas card . All three are very different from the sort expected at this time of year but it seems to me, uniquely relevant to this most singular of Christmases. You might recognise them as the three angels standing on the left in Piero della Francesca’s Baptism of Christ in […]