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Hello everyone and welcome to a very special festive

michaelmas. Call it that if you want to get nostalgic about going to a top level university.

Chris Merse. Nadolig. Advent.

Seasons greetings.

Wishing you all the merriest Santa Claus stockings.

Gifts.

Podcast.

Jesus. The show's a bit better than this.

The law is more coherent.

I read a very interesting article with John Byrne, written by John Byrne,

side, on my favourite authors and poets for the New Statesman at this, where he was talking

about Christmas's sort of pagan roots. So when some Christians came to the UK, they sort

of adapted all the pagan festivals for Christian festivals to kind of, you know, spread their

creed. And he said, when you hear, like Vickers and Bishop saying, I think we've lost the

real value of Christmas, then you should also bear in mind that that would have been just

as reasonable to come from a sixth century hunter, perhaps, who said, well, I think Christmas

has lost its value.

It used to be about us going to our kens and kens and watching the sun hit the land of

the dead on the equinox.

Yeah, you used to, you had a very Lloyd in Wales where you'd get a horse's skull and put

it on a big stick and then attach ribbons to the horse's skull and then you'd tap that

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