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After spending 5 hours or so putting together hundreds of pictures into two separate hard backed iPhoto books, then uploading the finished items for printing with a slim chance they may be here in time for Christmas, my creatives juices were pretty much drained. So I decided to use someone else's creativity as a blip subject and shot one of the neighbour's tastefully decorated houses.

Not sure how many yards of lights they've used here (and there's lights around all the shrubbery in the garden too!), but it certainly adds a cool LED glow to the street. It puts our piddling row of plastic icicles and cherry-light lit tree outside to shame, but that's countered by the thought of first putting up that amount and, even worse, having to take them all down again in a couple of weeks.

Now indulging in a bit of pure nostalgia with a three hour marathon countdown of the 100 Greatest Toys on TV. Even the kids are getting all dewy-eyed over forgotten Furby's and Tamagotchis, and I've a sudden urge to see how well Evel Knievel would fair out in all that snow and ice outside just. I also didn't realise how dangerous Clackers and Peter Powell Stunt Kites could be. I'm telling you, we're lucky to have survived the 1970s with that all going on.

This time last year's blip shows today was the first of our winter's snowfall. We've been snowed in this year for near on four weeks now...