Cloisters - Christmas Special 2006

We're all getting into the holiday mood at the NCS and want to shower you with gifts this month. There is a free eBook for everyone, another of Charles Dickens' Christmas works. This year we are giving you a special NCS edition of the Project Gutenberg eText Some Short Christmas Stories. We also have a free course for you. Noel has put together a great course for all of the papyrus aviators out there and it's free to our readers. Just follow the links to The Perfect Paper Plane from Noel's article and you can be flying aeroplanes all Christmas and well into 2007.

Speaking of gifts, is there someone you still can't find that perfect gift for? Are you dreading the last desperate rush on Christmas Eve? Why not buy your loved one a nice shiny NCS gift voucher, redeemable against the course of their choice? Arthur has rounded up a list of new courses that just might fit the bill.

Once you've warmed up the grey cells with the aeroplane construction, move on to David Webb's article on Forensic Psychology and learn about being a Christmas Cracker. Then there is the next part of Margaret Legum's series on the New Economics.

You'll probably need a bit of playtime after that and we have a bumper bag of Paul's Puzzles to help you do just that. We hope you enjoy this festive Cloisters and that you and your families and friends have a really good Christmas and an enlightening New Year.

Mark Toner