Monday, January 12, 2026

Rising, skiing and winter TV.

1. Watching the thermometer lounging in the marmalade pan creep up to 104C.

2. Fine rain is blowing on a mean wind across the slope, but she's still working away -- putting into practice everything she's observed in videos and considered over the week.

3. We slip in a quick episode of Ghost Story for Christmas -- an adaptation of E. Nesbit's Man-sized in Marble, clinging together in the dark, peering into this strange artificially unseasonable world unable to do anything to help the doomed characters.


Rising, skiing and winter TV.

1. Watching the thermometer lounging in the marmalade pan creep up to 104C. 2. Fine rain is blowing on a mean wind across the slope, but she...