I can't believe what I've achieved from writing over the last 12 months. Not only have I had success in writing recipes and other history/crime articles, I've even managed to publish my first children's Christmas adventure/fairy story for the Kindle - http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B006GEQL9I If I can do it, anyone can!

Sat nav, amazon, iphone and facebook: they all feature in this wonderful two minutes of christmas magic!! Click and see the nativity on you tube - but in the 21st century. Hilarious and very clever. Watch it now - the best two minutes of your online christmas!!

Although sincere Christians lament that the ACLU and others are ‘taking Christ out Christmas’, in truth, these two forms of celebration have always coincided on December 25th . The adherents of each form of celebration have generally remained staunchly faithful to their own forms since the mid-4th century when the Catholic Church created the edict to celebrate the birth of the Savior the day after the pagan festival of Saturnalia ended (December 17 through December 24).