Readings to get you into the Christmas mood...

FC Letters, JRRT

For those of you who have only begun reading this blog within the last dozen years - here is a reprise of my particular favourite Christmas readings, going back over several decades: 

1. The description of the feast at Sir Ector's castle in The Sword in the Stone, by TH White. 

2. The opening section of Sir Gawain and the Green Night - including the foundation of Britain, and up to the description of the feast at Camelot. 

3. The passages about the carol singers in Cider with Rosie, by Laurie Lee. 

4. The carol singers and surrounding parts of The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame. 

5. A Child's Christmas in Wales (in any of its several version) by Dylan Thomas. 

And, favourite of all:

6. The Father Christmas Letters - by JRR Tolkien.