They'll be back

Boxing Day scramble as various people left resulted as usual in a trail of abandoned belongings. This is a small selection.

A day of challenges and pleasures: slow breakfast with the Arbroath branch, walk with a daft sprocker, twisted ankle, visitor from Aberdeen, frantic cooking, food, chat, scrabble.

But, worst of all, news late on of a tragic death that will haunt the mother - a choir colleague - for the rest of her life. The boundaries of all we think we understand of Christmas stretched to their limits.