The Smoking Man

We bought this at a Christmas Market in Cologne around fifteen years ago.  At the time, there was nothing like it on sale in the UK but the growth of the German style Christmas Markets in the UK means they are more readily available here now.  We also stocked up on several packets of the incense cones that burn inside it, thinking we would get through them quite quickly.  As it's turned out, at the rate we've actually burned them we probably have enough to last us about another fifty years!  On that basis I could easily afford to use one for my blip today.

In other news, we seem to have brought colds back from our trip to York.  I had a sore throat yesterday and a bit of a temperature today, and W seems to be going down with it too.  Definitely not Covid (we've tested) so hopefully it's just a short-lived bug.