1 - Of all the things currently inside your fridge, what is the thing you like best? Spicy chutney

2 - Pick a quote, any quote, and share it here. It may or may not be apropos to the season.
"How many wars are you fighting out there, this Christmas morning? Maybe there's always time for another Christmas song..."".

3 - Of all the weather you've ( Read more... )

On Thursday, I went with inkognitoh, silverjet_allie and Pete to the Barbican's Twisted Christmas show, which featured a lot of cool music, along with shadow puppetry, a culinary shaggy dog story, and Heston Blumenthal recreating the smell of christmas onstage. Which we were sitting too far back to fully appreciate ( Read more... )

On the twelfth day of Christmas, ( Read more... )

High points:
Seeing family again.
Cooking Christmas dinner successfully.
Watching Royal Ballet production of Romeo and Juliet on BBC2 on Christmas afternoon.
Presents - World of Warcraft cards, Luttrell Psalter coffee mug, and a nice piece of Japanese steel. And Derek Dougan's overcoat ( Read more... )

Last day at work on Thursday.  Usual bustle loaning out reference copies over the vacation, students copying and printing out hundreds of pages ( Read more... )

Fechtbuch, Fechtbuch,
Fechtbuch, Fechtbuch.

The First Noel
from the Christmas Song Generator.

( The most wonderful time of the year... )

Met up with most of the London Renegades on Friday, as yokospungeon had presents for us all.  Hefty, heavyweight hexagonal parcels, beautifully wrapped.  We think they might be patio slabs.  And she'd made us up compilation Christmas CDs of offbeat, and pretty cool, tracks.  I was pleasantly surprised to find Patty Loveless's "Blue Grass, White Snow" - thought ( Read more... )

Your Christmas is Most Like: The Muppet Christmas Carol
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Thought about going to Dragonmeet on Saturday, but decided I'd only spend far too much money there. So I went Xmas shopping instead. Spent money, but it was money I was going to spend anyway ( Read more... )