My Season's Greetings

And here is my card to accompany wy best wishest to you for 2008. Keep your head cool and your feet warm. It's a pic of me and my brother, having a bath. We only had a shower, and for some reason my brother was afraid of the shower, hence the wash tub. We had three, and this was the middle-sized one.

Approved Season's Greetings

This is the approved card - driving to my parents I suddenly passed a magic bit, with white trees in a light grey mist. When I got to my parents, I ran in, grabbed their camera and ran out again, shouting (they are somewhat hard of hearing, and anyway I was excited) "Found your Christmas Card - be right back" and drove to the fields outside the village where I know are some lonely trees. This pic was voted unanimously (three for, none against) as the right card. As you can see, I really do come from a family of party animals.

Rejected Season's Greetings

For the past few years, I have been making a Season's Greeting Card for my parents. And every year we have a lot of discussion on what is an appropriate card - my father and I tend to disagree about this. This is the Reject for 2008. I quite liked the Vrrroommmm-into- the-new-year spirit of this pic, but my dad didn't want it because it wasn't X-massy at all. On this pic you see him (quite the macho, which is rather unlike him) and my mum on his motorbike. The pic must have been taken between 1952 and 1956 in Van Breestraat, Amsterdam, where they were living at the time. I really would have liked to cut them out of Van Breestraat and paste them onto heavenly blue skies, but considering their age (84 and 87) that may have been a bit too close for comfort.