Season's Greetings to all our readers ...!

Graham writes ...

It's well into December now, and I was due to write this month's blog post. However, it's clear that I'm not going to get to it - my sincere apologies. However, both John and I would like to wish all our readers a Good Christmas and a peaceful and blessed New Year!

Please take a moment to play the attached YouTube video of O come, O come, Emmanuel, one of my favourite carols. As you may know, it is an Advent carol, when we look forward in anticipation of the coming of Jesus. This arrangement, by Taylor Scott Davis, is not the traditional one, but hopefully it will allow a brief moment of peace and reflection among the business of the Christmas season. It is performed by the VOCES8 Foundation Choir and Orchestra, with members of Apollo 5.

I hope to resume 'normal service' in the New Year. A most likely topic at present is the marking of the 10th anniversary of the announcement of the detection of gravitational waves in February 2016.

If you have been following our monthly posts over 2025, please leave an indication that you are there - a like, a greeting or a brief comment. Thank you. 

Graham Swinerd

Southampton, UK
December 2025