Skip to content

Lady Wellington

The BFD

Laughter Is the Best Medicine

This regular daily post is the place to joke and banish negative thoughts. Share the laughter using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to make your reading experience more enjoyable click

Members Public
2022 Was Not an Easy Year. Will 2023 See Change?

2022 Was Not an Easy Year. Will 2023 See Change?

This time last year people were being told they could not attend their Christmas parties, families were debating whether to allow their unvaccinated members to join them for dinner, restaurants were denying people and New Years’ Eve loomed gloomily for hundreds of thousands of Kiwis. What a difference a year

Members Public
12 Truths for Christmas? Lest We Forget

12 Truths for Christmas? Lest We Forget

!function(r,u,m,b,l,e){r._Rumble=b,r[b]||(r[b]=function(){(r[b]._=r[b]._||[]).push(arguments);if(r[b]._.length==1){l=u.createElement(m),e=u.getElementsByTagName(m)[0],l.async=1,l.src="https://rumble.com/embedJS/udh4zl"+(arguments[1].video?

Members Public
12 Truths for Christmas? Just STOP!

12 Truths for Christmas? Just STOP!

!function(r,u,m,b,l,e){r._Rumble=b,r[b]||(r[b]=function(){(r[b]._=r[b]._||[]).push(arguments);if(r[b]._.length==1){l=u.createElement(m),e=u.getElementsByTagName(m)[0],l.async=1,l.src="https://rumble.com/embedJS/udh4zl"+(arguments[1].video?

Members Public
Charles Dickens: The Man Who Invented Christmas Plagiarized Jesus

Charles Dickens: The Man Who Invented Christmas Plagiarized Jesus

Matthew Robert Anderson Concordia University Everyone knows the story of Scrooge, a man so miserly his name has become synonymous with penny-pinching meanness. Scrooge’s conversion from miser to benefactor has been told and retold since Charles Dickens first wrote A Christmas Carol in the fall and winter of

Members Public
Why Christmas Ghost Stories Have Such Enduring Appeal

Why Christmas Ghost Stories Have Such Enduring Appeal

Sally O’Reilly The Open University Our fascination with ghostly tales around Christmas time goes back thousands of years and is rooted in ancient celebrations of the winter solstice. In the depths of winter, pagan traditions included a belief in a ghostly procession across the sky, known as the Wild

Members Public