Prepping Christmas Dinner while watching the Countryfile Christmas Special. Because, yes, I am middle aged and middle class.

A kitchen countertop features a cutting board with a potato and a peeler, a bag of potatoes, three bottles of wine, and a tablet displaying a blurred close-up image of grapes.

Time to get the turkey in.

A kitchen countertop holds a tray covered with aluminum foil, a glass bowl with raw meat, several bottles of wine, electrical outlets, and a smart speaker.

Today has challenged my understanding of the word “elf”.

A person dressed as a festive elf on stilts stands confidently at an outdoor market with tents and people in the background.

Free audiobooks from Apple

Well, this is a great Christmas gift:

Apple Books has published six exclusive audiobooks this week, showcasing six great first listen titles read by celebrity narrators. The books themselves are all public domain works from Pride and Prejudice to Winnie the Pooh, recorded by Apple and released in the Book Store for free.

If you have an iDevice of some sort, these are well worth grabbing. The narrators include Karen Gillen (Doctor Who, Guardians of the Galaxy) and Kate Beckinsale. (Underworld series, etc).

A promotional text highlights Great first listens for audiobooks, recommending titles like Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

Hello. @manton delivers Christmas three days early!

A section titled What's New explains an improvement in Safari that allows sharing both the URL and selected text using the share button in the bottom toolbar.

Strong and stable. Spoiled for stabilised filming right now - working in some tests for my blog.

A DJI Osmo Pocket camera and a GoPro camera mounted on a handheld grip are placed side by side on a wooden surface.

Oh, the irony.

A social media post shows a sentence with several spelling errors and a message about losing the ability to communicate clearly.

Early Christmas present to myself. Uh, I mean to my work. Uh, yes, my work. That’s it. cough.

A smartphone is mounted on a handheld gimbal stabilizer, capturing an image of a window view.

⚠️ Warning - photobomb in progress…

Two young children are smiling and posing playfully indoors, with one child wearing a red shirt and gray sweater and the other in a white martial arts uniform.

New green belt

A young girl wearing a white karate uniform is smiling and tying a green belt around her waist in a martial arts studio.