In the Christmas post

[callmemadam]

The first card I’ve received with this slogan on the envelope.



News to me! But not to the Huffington Post. If you follow the link to A Christmas Dinner, you find the interesting blog Reading Dickens. Beware annoying ads.
So far this year, I’ve read one chapter.

Comments

[land-girl.livejournal.com]

Your Christmas card is beautiful! My favourite so far. Thank you x

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I enjoyed making them, to my surprise.

[gwendraith.livejournal.com]

Goodness, he's not economical with words. He makes Christmas sounds wonderful, goodwill to all men and all that :)

Where were the annoying ads?

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

I bet Dickens never shopped for or cooked a Christmas dinner in his life, she sa bitterly.

Ads were popping up when I landed on that page. I then got a lot of ridiculous questions from Google on the lines of, 'why don't you like this ad?' Bah!

[gwendraith.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you need adblock or adblock plus. You can get it for free as an add on.

[gwendraith.livejournal.com]

I quick look at the 1841 census and he was 29 and married so I expect the wife cooked as there were no live in servants. On the 1851 census he was a visitor with a load of other people at the house of a doctor so I don't know his normal home situation although his wife had died the year earlier. The 1861 census shows that he had three servants, one undoubtedly a cook :)

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

You're really good at this stuff!

[gghost.livejournal.com]

What a lovely holiday treat! Thank you for sharing it.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

My pleasure!