Schools celebrate magical Christmas

Harnessing the sentiments in A Christmas Carol, this year we will all appreciate the simple things

Michael Caine and friends in The Muppet Christmas Carol

Ebenezer Scrooge, as we first meet him in Dickens' novel, A Christmas Carol, might be happy to be around this year. Witnessing our muted celebrations and our decisions to stay at home and keep loved ones apart, he might easily assume his 'Bah, humbug' sentiments were taking hold.

How wrong he would be.