Merry Christmas and Happy 200th Birthday!

For those of you who celebrate Christmas, we wish you all the best. Charles Dickens described the worst and best of all of us which can rise to the surface during a holiday season, in his classic story A Christmas Carol:

“There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say,” returned the nephew; “Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas-time, when it has come round — apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that…