I have only been a member of the Comox Valley Writers Society for three months but I had taken up the challenge to write, and read a short, one-page, Christmas story on a childhood Christmas dinner.

From dry turkey to peppermint flavoured mashed potatoes, our Christmas dinner wasn’t anything near those shown on the television.

Last April my wife and I decided to become a tiny part of the solution instead of the problem. We were going ‘green’. As a first step, we put our name on a waiting list for the new GM EUV, an electric mini-SUV.