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The Three Gift Rule

All you want for Christmas (literally) Adapted from my 2023 end-of-year speech to High School students and staff… As I walked around the school this week, I was uplifted by the excitement from staff and students in the high school.  I also could not help but notice the thousands of gifts that were being carried […]

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How Do You Grade a Christmas Tree?

This weekend, we put up our Christmas tree. We revelled in our work, turned up the music, ate mince pies and drank mulled wine (and blackcurrant juice!)—one of my favourite days of the year. We always put the lights on first. Two sets of lights were untangled, bulbs checked, and batteries replaced. Tinsel is no […]