So this is Christmas..

.. or rather, was Christmas!
And given that I’ve lost a lot of fondness for the festival of capitalism as in the past couple of years it has proven rather a portent of ill-tidings rather than good; and given Granny and Dad’s recent heart issues, this year could’ve proven tricky.
Happily, things turned  out pretty well.  Lots [...]

Testing

Testing this new widget on my iPhone; indeed, the subtly modified picture above was made using another iPhone application.

I am a semi-literate dunderhead..

I just scrape in to the realms of being semi-literate, crossing off 13% of this list of books, most of which look terribly boring, and a number of which I read as a child or was enforced to through study (although some of which, I’m looking at you, Thomas Hardy!) I never finished despite completing [...]