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not to mention mint sauce, slivers of garlic, or springs of rosemary. Let's focus on woolly hats and gloves.

Mrs E managed to organise a family feast on a fantastic scale last night. No lambs were hurt in its creation, although the beef Wellington was far from vegan.

Always fun to visit my brother-in-law. Managed to salvage sister-in-law's digital images from a trip to New Zealand which somehow became erase between camera and iPad. Good old FAT - no concept of deleting data, just a matter of rebuilding the file allocation table, and oh look, there are thirteen hundred pictures we thought we couldn't see.

And now home to the marking pile.