DANIEL DERONDA...

...is the variety of clematis that's still flourishing outside the front door. I don't remember it flowering this late before. It looks as though it'll keep going until the next hard frost. It's definitely having a better month than I am so far, especially as I've just had to order a new/refurbished Mac which I'd really hoped not to have to do until next year at least, but having wasted yet another morning recovering, backing up and not actually working, I can't risk waiting any longer. Beans on toast for Christmas dinner... :-(

Here's a quote from George Eliot's Daniel Deronda:
"It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down."

Bursting buds