On the Seventh Day of Christmas My True Love Sent to Me…

On the Seventh Day of Christmas My True Love Sent to Me…

…Seven Swans A-Swimming, and there is no prettier sight than one of them gliding along the water towards you. Their passage is elegant and effortless – you never see their black feet beneath the surface, hammering against the current. It’s the same...

On the Sixth Day of Christmas My True Love Sent to Me…

…Six geese a-laying. If you are very very lucky and have worked very very hard, one of the six just might be the goose that lays the golden egg – a book which gets published and even goes on to be a bestseller. A Christian interpretation of A Partridge in a Pear...

On the Fifth Day of Christmas My True Love Sent to Me…

…Five gold rings. It’s been suggested that these gold rings represent the Torah, the first five books of the Old Testament. Alternatively they may refer to the gold ring around a pheasant’s neck – some think that the early verses of A Partridge in a...

On the First Day of Christmas My True Love Sent to Me…

… a partridge in a pear tree, which in creative writing terms is an excellent example of alliteration, so this is what I’m going to look at in the first verse of my Creative Writing Christmas Carol.Alliteration is when you cluster the same consonants...