The carolers in the JDE building

The carolers in the JDE building

As we left for Malta a big Christmas tree was going up in the entrance hall of the Jacques Delors building and today we had Christmas carols in the same hall sung by the institutions’ choir. Having worked in quite a few institutions over the years I have a few friends in the choir (which is of a very high quality, incidentally) and it’s always nice to see them again in such circumstances. It also means that Christmas is almost upon us. It’s a cliché, but this year has gone so fast.