WANT A PERRFECT END TO THE YEAR?

All you need is love… A Christmas message from James Bowen – and Street Cat Bob

It was another famous Londoner named Bob, the great comedian, Bob Hope, who best summed up an uncomfortable truth about this time of the year. “My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others,” he said, before asking. “Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?” Hope, originally from Eltham before conquering Hollywood, didn’t need humour to expose the irony at the heart of the so-called season of goodwill. Why do we wait until Christmas to show what should be the most natural of human qualities: love? If we only share it with others for a week or so each December, what are we doing for the other 360-odd days of the year? Couldn’t we spread our love at other times? It’s…

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