Who leads the dance?

A mid-afternoon walk in Westonbirt and we wandered into the "Winter Wonderland" currently set up in the old arboretum. It's a chargeable visit even for members, but if you get in before dusk, well...

So although we didn't experience the full dreadfulness of it, we did enjoy wandering around and admiring the immense number of fungi that, being behind roped walkways, were still unkicked and were looking pretty wonderful themselves.

Janet really enjoyed this "follow me" light installation... :-)

I see Russia-friendly EU-Member Hungary blocked agreed EU aid to Ukraine yesterday. Of course, as an EU exile myself I can't really comment on much but there is article seven, which allows for suspension of member right after serious and persistent breaches of community membership.

Ukraine is taking a slight back step in the news, with horrific war crimes a daily event in the Israeli obliteration of Gaza. The media is a fickle beast, and doesn't seem to have the capacity to hold many several news stories at once. 

If you look, though, every major story seems to lead back to one puppet master. The feeling of inevitability is wearing. May peace come. /|\