The December ZOOM meeting was heralded a success by all present. 18 members were in attendance to see 8 displays on the theme of Christmas. We began with a Christmas themed competition which had been arranged by our Webmaster and Treasurer Mark Bailey. He showed 6 Christmas Airletters from the 1960’s, 1970’s and 1980’s and we had to guess in which year each had been produced from a choice of 3 dates. The winner, who correctly guessed all 6 was our Librarian John Scott. He chose a bottle of the Penny Black Red wine from an English Winery in Shropshire. An excellent way to start the meeting. We then had displays from Peter Webb on the theme of Cards from German WWI Prisoners of War in India; Daphne McMillan showed 6 WW2 air letters; Julian Bagwell had 6 covers which had been posted in advance of Christmas Day to avoid a chaotic Christmas Eve for the local postmasters at the beginning of the 20thc. Marc Oxley had a variety of early to mid 19thc Entires including a Free frank bearing a forged Frank sent on Christmas Day and a young man writing to his Mother have eaten a bowl of Furmety on Christmas morning with a lady friend, which finished with his reminding her about the upcoming introduction of the universal Penny Post, John Scott then showed Christmas cards sent by Princess Victoria from Sandringham to her old Nanny, followed by Julian Tweed with a very nice display of Christmas themed letters, several of which had very decorative hand painted elements to the front and finally Rex Dixon showed 6 on the theme of Christmas in Germany.