Rest in peace Chris Rea. Famous for his wonderful husky, bluesy voice. We've all heard "Driving Home For Christmas" on the radio recently, but my favourite song is "Road to Hell". The full version is hardly ever played. It's well worth listening to, so I'm posting it here.

A Christmas reminder that there is a native herd of reindeer in Scotland, seen here treading a path through the deep Cairngorms snow.

This little guy got a second chance at life thanks to the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. He's an orphan being raised there right now, and one day he'll join more than 200 rescued orphans who have successfully returned to the wild 🐘😍

I was around 3 when I first heard this song and felt the pain in it, telling my mom I miss the good old days! I was 3! Early melancholic nostalgic. ❤️ 🎶𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐇𝐨𝐩𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐬 ~ 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐖𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝟏𝟗𝟔𝟖

The kittens have been named Luna, Chocolate & Sky by young patients. 🥹 Appropriately, the hospital’s CATS team (Children’s Acute Transport Service) chose Mum’s name: Cassie. The little family will spend Christmas together in a foster home. A true Christmas miracle! 🎄 (2/2)

Wishing you a Happy Christmas

11 year old John Lennon thanking his aunt Harriet for giving him a towel with his name on it as a Christmas gift 🥹🤍

This work by Pieter Buegel is probably the very first painting of a White Christmas. The pregnant, blue-cloaked Mary rides a donkey led by Joseph, but they are inconspicuous as part of the throng (The Census at Bethlehem, 1566) artinsociety.com/bruegelrsquos-…

Merry Christmas, Sky Blues! 🎄

After four years together, on 25 December 1967 Paul McCartney and Jane Asher announced their engagement to be married. It didn't last, on 20 July 1968 she announced on the BBC that the relationship was over. See more: beatlesbible.com/1967/12/25/pau…

Happy Crimble 🎅🎄

In this quietly powerful photograph from 1902, Horace Warner captures a barefoot young girl seated on a stoop in London’s East End, gently holding a cat close to her chest. Her clothes are worn, her expression solemn, and the setting stark—but the way she cradles the animal

Angels climbing the stairway to Heaven on the West front of Bath Abbey in Somerset, England, circa 1521.

John Lennon in Paris on his 21st birthday (1961) 📸: Paul McCartney

Across The Universe 🎼

John Lennon & Paul McCartney (1965) 📸 © David Bailey

The little girl in this painting is Bia de’ Medici, and her story is as fragile as the pearls she wears... Bia was born in 1536, before her father, Cosimo I de’ Medici, had fully secured his rule or his carefully constructed public image. She was his child, but not his wife’s.

The Beatles P.S. I LOVE YOU 🎧 Hidden 3-part vocal harmony, finally revealed. A gentle reminder of why this music still means so much. Thank you to everyone who shared this journey through the year. See you again in 2026 — with more music to discover. ✨ #Beatles #Thankyou

Six years ago, a donkey named Diesel went missing in Wyoming. He’s now part of an elk herd. Experts say this kind of cross-species bond is rare, and since he appears safe, officials have allowed him to remain with his adopted elk family 🫏

Happy Birthday to The Shipping Forecast. Saving lives for 102 years.