In Our Own Write – December 2025/January 2026
In the festive spirit, our December meeting’s topic was “The Christmas Tree” and, as usual, five totally different interpretations of the subject matter.
- Whilst all around families were indulging in excess at Christmas a poor family were making do with no money for electricity and the mother doing without so that her children could have a little basic food. For entertainment she took them out for a walk to look at the Christmas lights and people’s Christmas trees. A passing cyclist stopped and offered them two prepared hot meals left over from a charity lunch which they gratefully accepted. The sobering fact is that there will indeed be families in this situation this Christmas.
- A tale of a rural family at Christmas.
- Two young brothers visiting Grandma for Christmas and one creeping downstairs on Christmas Eve to help himself to the chocolate decorations on the Christmas tree. An attempt to frame his brother by planting the wrappers under his bed was unsuccessful.
- A Christmas tree describing what life was like at Christmas when placed in a Children’s Home.
- An abused wife fails to return home from work, her car is found abandoned and suspicion falls on her husband. A good friend is very concerned and the husband is questioned by the police. Some months later her friend visits her remote holiday home for a break to find the missing woman is residence there having copied her key. She says that she is too scared to return home until her friend informs her that her husband can no longer hurt her as he is in hospital following a series of strokes and unlikely to survive.
Our next meeting is on the 12th January when the topic will be “The clock struck 12”.
Happy Christmas
Travina