Tuesday, December 02, 2025

Fairly Christmassy, queue jumpers and advent calendar.

1. For the last few weeks, polling company YouGov has been wondering how Christmassy I feel. Today, I can answer honestly that I'm now feeling fairly Christmassy.

2. Because we are on foot, we can walk past all the cars to the front of the water queue. But then we have to carry all our bottles home again.

3. We have an advent calendar on the computer to play with this evening, with tiny low-stakes games and little surprises. 

Northernmost point, out of the rain and blue fire.

1. An alarm goes off in Nick's pocket to let us know that it's the moment of the winter solstice. 2. The rain is falling in steady c...