Christmas bokeh

More Christmas nonsense today, as time was pressing heavily on me and the poinsettia and the tree were both readily available.

This morning R and I did more tidying and cleaning, and then he went off out with a shopping list while I put up the remaining Christmas decorations. If I didn't quite fulfil my promise not to climb on anything while he was out (you'd think he didn't want me fracturing any more vertebrae!), I'd almost made it back to ground level by the time he walked in through the back door and found me standing on a kitchen chair, positioning a swag on the top of a cupboard. To be fair, I'd have been completely done and dusted, and sitting on the sofa wearing an innocent expression, if I hadn't been slowed down by the absolute necessity of keeping half an eye on What's Up Doc, which turned up on TV this afternoon for the first time in several decades. And luckily, R was so entranced by the car chase and the plate glass window scene, which came on just as he arrived home, that he entirely failed to notice that I'd been  mountaineering in his absence.

You may need to be a Boomer to properly enjoy What's Up Doc - which according to the Radio Times was made by Peter Bogdanovich in overt homage to the screwball comedies of the 30s and 40s such as Bringing Up Baby, on which our generation grew up. (I'm trying to remain stoical about the realisation that this film is now 52 years old, but that its release in 1972 took place only 32 years after the release of The Philadelphia Story, and 34 after the release of Bringing Up Baby, but I'd be lying if I said this was a comforting perspective.) However, if you've never seen it - or missed it today, but remember it fondly from your own youth and would like to see it again - it's available on the BBC iPlayer for the next 28 days.