
Longest days and shortest and finding calm.
Listening to lapping water and reflecting on a Dickensian Christmas.
The Many Faces of Ebeneezer Scrooge
Speculative spectacles and sun-warmed raspberries.

Anticipating a day without reading.
Early morning walk.
Stormy weather as I prepare myself for an eye op.
Happy frogs and chance meetings.
In and out of hail and sunshine on the coldest November day since 1953.
More rain, maybe snow to come, and royal ringing protocols.