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Each Christmas, I ask readers of Roaming Brit to make a festive contribution to this blog, expressing their thoughts and feelings about a time of year I have always enjoyed. This Christmas will be unlike any other we have experienced in modern times; it is likely the second wave of the Coronavirus pandemic will be at its peak and all of us will be looking forward to 2021.

This year I wanted to ask all of you to send me your Christmas wishes; if you could have one wish this year, what would it be? Sitting here writing this blog entry today, my head is elsewhere, as it often is these days. I have so many wishes for the future, I can't begin to say. Like all of us, I am wishing this awful year away, I want things to return to normal and the World to get back to the way it was. It is difficult to comprehend just how anxious I feel every day, but there is hope around the corner; as the nights draw in and the festive lights go up, I can finally see light at the end of the tunnel. Colourful illuminations always inspire my sense of hope, even in the darkest of times; the warm glow from lights on a tree, offer an opportunity to relax, think and contemplate happier days ahead.

All of us have wishes, things we have been putting off until better times, a bucket list that needs to be fulfilled, ambitions or aspirations for success. Christmas offers the chance of renewal and a yearning to do good, complete tasks or strive with determination to achieve everything we didn't before. A single wish come true, could change your life or the World around you. It could point the way towards success and notoriety or forge the seeds of expectations for a future untried and untested. Whatever your wish is, share your dreams and fervour with a familiar audience and look forward to better times, as we finally say adiós to 2020 and pray 2021 will be our best year yet!

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