The "True Love" one hears in the song is not a smitten boy or girlfriend but Jesus Christ, because truly Love was born on Christmas Day. The partridge in the pear tree also represents Him because ...

Arnold was born in 1925 and raised in Pear Tree Close in Bozeat. The youngest of five, Arnold was 14 years old at the start of the second world war. He served his country as a marine, remembering ...