Usually at this time of year I read Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’ although sometimes I cheat by watching ‘Scrooge’ with Alistair Sim, a great film and a great actor.

Have you seeen the 1935 film ‘A Christmas Carol’ with Seymor Hicks playing Scrooge? A truly evil and nasty Scrooge, ell worth the watch!

But this year I have just got hold of and started to reread ‘Cat’s Cradle’ by Kurt Vonnegut a book that I last read some 30 or more years ago. What a wonderful book it is to be sure. I will tell you more about it when I have finished it.