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We went to the “Burning the Clocks” celebration here in Brighton last night. It’s got a very pagan feel to it, even though it was actually only thought up 6 years ago. Two processions of hand made paper clock lanterns, and other imagery set off from the Marina and from the Pavillion meeting up on Marine Parade for a bonfire and fireworks. See the rest of the photos.
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Well, all presents are bought and wrapped, our fridge and freezer are stacked with food and our Christmas tree is up and making our living room look festive. Hurrah! Time to gorge ourselves on fine wine and mince pies and enjoy ourselves!
I got a copy of November’s Saveur magazine in the post today, and if you look on page 16, you’ll see this picture, and at the bottom of the column, it says “courtesy Jane Fothergill”. One of my photos is in print 😀
I found a perfect Christmas present for Jono today – it was a cuddly moose in our local Safeway, with a Christmas hat saying “Merry X-Moose” on it’s jumper. But seeing as how a) we brought him a moose finger puppet back from our honeymoon, and b) he’s leaving the country on the 28th for good 🙁 it didn’t seem worth buying for him. So, instead, he’ll have to make do with this.
Last Monday (9th) I thought I could finally say goodbye to the cough that had been plaguing me for the past few weeks. Hurrah! All was great until Thursday, when I started coughing again. By Friday I had a temperature of 101.5 and by Saturday I was a snot monster with a nasty cough again. I’m on the road to recovery again and have just been to see the Doctor and got some penicillin to shift the cough away from my chest. So, one week before Christmas and I’m on antibiotics. Lovely! Oh, and Christmas is running late in our house cos I spent all the weekend in bed – so no Christmas tree yet, (in fact our wonderful idea of going and digging our own at Wilderness Wood has bitten the dust as we’re going to have so many other things to do this weekend :-()
Our Christmas cards arrived from CharityCards.co.uk arrived today, so we can now get on with writing them. It seems like we’ve only just finished writing Thank You cards for all our very generous friends after the wedding. Maybe we should have gone for the Personalised Christmas Cards so we didn’t have to write anything – somehow though at the time that seemed just too impersonal, now I’m beginning to think it would have been a great idea!
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Sometimes I just love the BBC News site. Today they’ve posted this – a statement from Santa explaining that he does exist despite what Reverend Lee Rayfield said in a carol service. And better still there are distinct wording similaries to Cherie’s statement. Nice one Beeb!
I listened to Cherie Blair’s statement on Radio 5 on the way back from Chesterfield last night about the whole Peter Foster and flat buying thing. It left me with a couple of questions – why are there 2 flats in Bristol – what is the other one for?, and why isn’t student accommodation good enough for their son? With a government policy that seems to be making it increasingly hard for students to survive without debt, why should he get such a helping hand? I also hadn’t realised that he had government officials helping him with his homework this time last year! Nice!
It must be winter because we’ve mentioned TV twice in todays blogs….
The Web Review isn’t a particularly interesting web site but it makes strangely compelling TV (ITV, no idea when… probably the very small hours of the morning). They give a quick review of a web site and then chat about it. Sounds dull, but the presenters make it something I’d watch again.