It’s the season to compare how many cards you have with your erstwhile friends, and while today most cards tend towards the cute and twee, in the past they were rather odder.
Of course, to someone of the past, our modern obsession with robins, carol singers and snow would seem just as odd to them as they are cute to us, but tastes and traditions change, and the past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
Lucky clover pigs hard at work – shouldn’t they be in blankets by now?
Let me give you Covid for Christmas.
Mugged for Christmas, and not by the shops for once.
It’s what Christmas is all about – crying babies from 1907.
How big was that bird they are fighting over the wishbone?
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