Currently reading: The Christmas Chronicles: Notes, stories & 100 essential recipes for midwinter by Nigel Slater 📚

Well, it’s the right time of year. 🎄

We have our Christmas tree.

Fantastic lanterns at Light Up Shoreham this evening.

Taking a quick break down by the harbour arm.

When a sparrowhawk comes for lunch.

I’m pretty sure I read this story 15 years ago, except it was Second Life people were getting married in, not the ”metaverse”:

Getting Married in the Metaverse

The low light capabilities of the iPhone 13 Pro continue to impress me.

These people are mad. Admirably, impressively mad. But mad.

A 15 mile walk. In December. In their swimming costumes. 🥶

A rubicon has been crossed. I just scanned a QR code in a print magazine to open a webpage.

This is worrying: an OFSTED report has found that “nearly all children” have seen a negative educational impact from the pandemic.