I'll be home for Christmas

 

This is such an interesting advertising. We can learn History in old ads, we can study social and mental History by the way they dress, the houses, what they write, how they think but in this one we see all that and more, we see the end of the World War II. 

It talks about how, for some time, it was advised not to travel but as the war ended, people could see crouds of men in the transports, ships, trains but also in buses going home. And it's here that this Company enters. They advertise how as in this new world they can provide a good service on the return to normality and help bring happiness to each home and family.

And above everything, in that Christmas children would be able to see their parents and wives would be able to see their husbands coming home - the ones that didn't die in the war, that is.

In this Christmas that is coming now, when life is getting harder, for several reasons, around the world, let's hope that every mother can hear their children, and every children can hear their fathers and every woman can hear their husbands saying:

I'll be home for Christmas !

Good times

I know that we all live in the time that God chose for us so we must be happy and thankful for that but I hope He doesn't mind that I think that I would like so much to have lived in the times prior to the middle of the 60'. I think that was then that the ugliness and lack of morals replaced the old order. Not that there wasn't bad people before, but in the whole, times were better.

That's why I like so much to watch illustrations that show us those wonderful times. I approve the way people lived, the houses, the clothes, everything, including the first years of the decade of 60. In the middle of the decade things changed and I don't like it. But I know that even after it some people found a way to dress nicely.

Now just watch these scenes.

People nicely dressed, nice houses, a sence of security in the streets, people smiling and talking.

And I would like a bit of snow.

Such nice houses, such good life.

Images of Trevor Mitchell.

Happy times

 

This picture with  the older couple reminds me of such happy past times when my grandmother was alive and later when she was not but my mother was and my father, and we had at our house a very large Christmas Eve dinner and lunch on the Christmas day.

They would come, also my sister with her husband and son and my brother with his wife. I had children then and it was a very happy time.

But we are where God puts us so we must accept each season in life and be happy with what we have. 

I haven't with me my grandmother, mother and father but I have my own children and we have happy times as we are. And we give thanks to God.

So, let's be happy.

Now I will post here some work of Trevor Mitchell which picture so well the cosiness of Christmas in family, that wonderful comfort of after lunch when people was alredy well fed and just seat relaxing and enjoying the happiness of having a family.

Happy times.

Time goes by and new generations replace old ones, now it's me who is becoming older and my children are adult. These are new times but can be happy too, so it's such a joy to see Christmas approaching and doing all the preparations.

Thanks be to God.

Christmas from other times

As Christmas day approaches I catch myself looking for nice images and that feels so good.
Either those of Victorian Christmas time or just some funny clip art, I am always so pleased to watch them.

Then it came to my mind to make a post of some I found and that I like.
Let's begin by the Victorian ones.

But I have to say that I even prefer the ones from later times like these:

I think I was born in the wrong time.