New Year 2015

To all those we love and care for

From

Nick, Nora, Laurent and Will

December 21 - 1695: A window tax is imposed in England, causing many householders to brick up windows to avoid the tax.

Tizku leshanim rabbot*

Ne'imot ve-tovot**

To all my friends, not just those celebrating this feast day: may your year be filled with the tartness of apples and the sweetness of honey; may your blessings be as numerous as the seeds of the pomegranate and the fish of the sea; may your happiness be as intoxicating as a flagon of good wine; may your laughter be as joyful as a sounding trumpet; and may there always be a candle to ban the darkness from your life.


The traditional Sephardic greeting for Rosh Hashanah:

*May you merit many years!

and the response:

**Pleasant and good one!

16 September - 1966: The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera, Antony and Cleopatra.

For All My American Friends

Auguri di Santo Sgeveno!


And for a lovely Italian take on that most American of festas GB of Italian Notebook explains my greeting here!

26 novembre - San Leonardo da Porto Maurizio

For My Orthodox Friends

Wishing my friends in Serbia and Greece and all my Orthodox friends a Happy Easter.

Христос Bоскресе - Χριστός ανέστη

19 aprile - Pascha

Natività del Signore - 2009

Buon Natale e auguri

Merry Christmas

Joyeux Noël

25 dicembre - Natale di Gesù

Buon San Valentino

Auguri e amore a tutti!

e grazie Maurizio for the photo....

14 febbraio - San Valentino