At the pub where I work, we enter a yearly competition to beat other pubs in the area to having the best Christmas decorations. But other than a tree, LED bulbs and some tinsel, I'm a bit lost as to how we can make our pub look absolutely amazing. Its a fairly small old man pub with a half moon bar in the center, and it looks very traditional, so I'm worried anything too OTT would look out of place. But I would love to win! Any suggestions anyone has for cheap and cheerful but also AMAZING ideas for Christmas decorations, please share!
I got in touch with him and he sounded really keen to meet me, probably because I'm a good friend of Edie's, so I'm meeting him tomorrow afternoon down at his school He said we could just have a laid back chat about what I do, what I want to do and he'll let me know more about the school and what they're doing.
I'm so excited, I'm scaling the internet for a good 
Edison was responsible for a great number of inventions that facilitated mass communication, specifically telecommunications. The reason for his extensive knowledge in telecommunications was his early career as a telegraph operator. Edison was awarded the job by a three year old boy’s parents after he saved the child from being struck by a runaway train. The inventions related to mass communication that can be credited to Edison include electrical power, motion pictures, recorded music, a mechanical vote recorder, and a stock ticker. A crucial development for the modern industrialized world, in Edison one finds the origin of the concept and implement of all electric-power generation and distribution to factories, businesses, and homes. The first of Edison’s power stations was located on Manhattan Island in New York.
“The best friend man has in the world may turn against him and become his enemy. His son, or daughter, that he has reared with loving care, may prove ungrateful. Those who are nearest and dearest to us, those whom we trust with our happiness and good name may become traitors to their faith. The money a man has he may lose. It flies away from him, perhaps when he needs it most. A man's reputation may be sacrificed in a moment of ill-considered action. The people who are prone to fall on their knees when success is with us may be the first to throw the stone of malice when failure settles its cloud upon our head.
The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog. A man's dog stands by him in prosperity and poverty, in health and in sickness.”
The best (and most beautiful) description of the Wheel of Fortune can be found in the tragedy ‘Agamemnon’ by Seneca in which the chorus addresses Fortuna;
“O Fortune, who dost bestow the throne’s high boon with mocking hand, in dangerous and doubtful state thou settest the too exalted. Never have sceptres obtained calm peace or certain tenure; care on care weighs them down, and ever do fresh storms vex their souls. ...great kingdoms sink of their own weight, and Fortune gives way ‘neath the burden of herself. Sails swollen with favouring breezes fear blasts too strongly theirs; the tower which rears its head to the very clouds is beaten by rainy Auster.... Whatever Fortune has raised on high, she lifts but to bring low. Modest estate has longer life; then happy he whoe’er, content with the common lot, with safe breeze hugs the shore, and, fearing to trust his skiff to the wider sea, with unambitious oar keeps close to land.”