Christmas Cheer

She was the very first person I met today. I could have returned straight home, job done, but her colour and cheeriness persuaded me to venture further and embrace the Christmas mayhem on another very grey day. I went to our little independent bookstore here in Ilkley to pick up my Christmas present to myself - a copy of Lincoln in the Bardo. I'm not expecting to do anything else or get very far at all on Christmas Day. I've only heard the most amazing things.

There was no way in the world that the exuberant Anna wasn't going to get her moment in colour today.