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Very cold night but it must have warmed up at some point in the early hours to put down a few centimetres of snow. Weather is now turning into the classical Christmas situation of a low between Iceland and Scandinavia and a high somewhere around the Azores which then funnel wet warm Atlantic air into northern Europe and melts away all the snow that has got up our hopes of a White Christmas.

By the time I did the evening dog walk, the temperature was +3°C and the snow very slushy.

When I get the chance I like to watch the weekly Sunday late morning political TV discussion on Bavarian TV  based on the German "Stammtisch" tradition, known as "Sunday Regulars Table". Filmed live from a pub atmosphere, three "regulars" of very different political leanings, invite two guests, one from the arts/culture/entertainment scene and one from politics usually Bavarian but also German national scene,

The discussions are held, sometimes heatedly, in a friendly open atmosphere. Makes the British political discussion scene a joke and I can only laugh when I see that SkyNews has been battling away for months to get 100,000 people to sign a petition that will force MPs to discuss in parliament whether they should be forced by law to take part in TV debates at general elections.

Today, it was announced that the three regular presenters would be standing down after 11 years and over 400 broadcasts after agreeing initially to do just 6 shows. Not yet known who the new ones will be. So today's show was not quite typical with quite a bit of reflection over 11 years experiences.

In fact, the main presenter, a journalist, magazine editor and publisher, had to leave a few months ago as he decided to run in the Bavarian State elections simply to block the AfD from getting a particular seat. He had been replaced by a well-known TV & Radio presenter who is involved in monthly public TV discussions from around the districts of Bavaria where politicians are required to attend and answer public questions on local and EU affairs.

The other two presenters were the cartoonist of a leading newspaper and the Director of Munich's world-leading technology Deutsches Museum and a University Prof. The three of them wouldn't put up with any party political bull..... And just for Mrs May, her friend Jean-Claude Juncker is known to watch the programme and has been known to quote things he heard there, in Brussels.

Angie out early and well dressed to ride out with MrsMY. As they meet halfway between our place and her's and I don't need to pick up Luna in this cold weather, I don't get to Blip the two of them.