A Christmas Eve visitor to my childhood village might have mistaken the scene for an illustration from a story book or an old-fashioned greeting card...<br>
The houses... seemed dressed in finery. Many were decorated with a string or two of coloured lights and in most, the lights of a Christmas tree twinkled in a front window.
The houses... seemed dressed in finery. Many were decorated with a string or two of coloured lights and in most, the lights of a Christmas tree twinkled in a front window.