The Wide Black Yonder...

No, it's not our place... we're still a dark house. 

I've taken several shots of this place at the top of the village over the years - and I think the decorations are multiplying! We have however bought a tree. 

Having looked at the various offerings at warehouses that cost an amount I would once have had a good weekend away with, we visited the local lordship's place and picked up one of his mis-shapes for much much less. 

Trees all have a shape, and although our consumerist culture demands a perfectly conical tree, we've gone with the arboreal equivalent of the corner grocer and his amusingly wonky veg. 

I enjoy the midwinter lights. They are, after all, all about surviving the darkness. But we're in a landscape of rising energy bills, and we need to survive those too.