Welcome to the last of the Bloggers around the Christmas Tree series for 2016.. In another week the decorations will come down and we will begin 2017 having left this year behind.

It would not be difficult to paint 2016 as one of the blackest in quite a while as far as global conflict, loss of icons of stage and screen and political upheavals is concerned. But there have been some good things that have taken place around the world but they seem to have been overwhelmed by the headlines.

There are cultures who are very wary of Leap Years and put great store in the power of that one extra day out of 365.  Many people are glad to be moving into the seemingly more benign 2017 and I do hope for all our sakes that a calmer twelve months is ahead of us. Certainly we will be…