Christmas love

Another grey day fully occupied with essential duties, including a trip to the nurse to review my test results (nothing worrying showed up, just slightly high cholesterol) and a trip to the garage to look for a new car, as the fault on the Corsa has finally been identified and it's not economically sensible to go ahead with the repairs, given its age and mileage. We saw a car we liked - the rather unusual Citroen Cactus. The salesman called it a Marmite car, but it's on sale for a very good price, economical to run and with generally very positive reviews. So hopefully we'll have it all sorted by Christmas!

As these trips didn't provide much in the way of photographic inspiration, I followed Emma Davies' advice for making heart-shaped bokeh and played around with the Christmas tree lights to make a festive abstract - that almost has dots (well they're just misshapen dots). At least it's bright and cheerful, something which seems to be sadly lacking with the current weather!