Compliments of the season to all our readers. This may seem like an odd observation in the January issue of this paper, but it is correct. As Fr Richard Ounslow points out in his scripture column, most of the Christmas season falls in January. Properly, Christmas starts and Advent finishes on the night of Christmas Eve. The 12 Days of Christmas come to a wonderful crescendo on the night before the Epiphany, Twelfth Night, and the feast day that follows, when we celebrate both the coming of the Three Kings and the Baptism of Christ. And then we are left with a mild decrescendo of the Christmas season until the Purification of the Virgin at Candlemas on 2 February. January, then, is very much part of Christmas, still a time for feasting and good cheer.