A little festive cheer for today, it being Christmas Eve.

The decorations went up yesterday, and apparently so did my ability to operate the manual focus control, so I leave you with this out-of-focus and yet somehow “artistic” photo of our tree. (Mainly to avoid the embarassment of admitting we have an artificial one, but there we go.)

For those of you who don’t celebrate Christmas, well, to be honest neither do I  – at least not the religious aspect. Yes, another lapsed CofE Christian. But Christmas is still fun, and worth it even just for seeing the family.

Since family circumstances dictate that we’re not actually celebrating anything until Boxing Day, I won’t have any gorgeous photos of food (last time…this year) up until at least the 27th. I might try and resist, and save my depleting memory space for photos of the dogs down the beach on the traditional post-lunch walk. They’re gorgeous dogs, and the coast is pretty nice round here.