A motley crew

Another Christmas scenario for your delectation! A rather strange mix of seasonal and non- seasonal - Bo Peep, her lost lamb (which is amazingly close) the resident fairies and the Christmassy items. The snowman card was given to me by my friend D the other day - she painted the picture and then got it put on her cards by Hallmark. If I'd known earlier, I might have used one of my paintings like that - but there's always next year! At least a charity got support from my card buying this year :-)

Still have a cough and am quite catarrhal too. Have managed to spread my lurgy to my son - not that I was trying! Stuart seems to have escaped the worst of it, though he feels a bit under par and has lost a bit of volume in his voice - probably not helped by being out in the cold at the village Christmas lights switch-on yesterday evening and helping lead a session of carol singing! He had "the best hotdog I've ever eaten" though, so that's all right! ;-)). About 600 people turned up - good job the road was closed!