OK, now the snow is getting serious and settling. My daughters are going to be very excited.

Futurism:

After a storm and flash flooding knocked out the power in south-east Queensland, Australia, a local woman used her electric car to power her son’s life-saving dialysis machine.

Sometimes having a giant mobile battery is incredibly useful.

I think I may have over-bought Christmas coffee. It’s past twelfth night, and I still have two bags of beans to go.

A brief flurry of snow. We don’t get a lot of this down on the south coast.

Sunset on Old Fort Road.

Sunset turning the clouds purple over the houses on Old Fort Road, Shoreham-by-Sea.

Started reading: Saltwater in the Blood by Easkey Britton 📚

This is spectacular even by crypto scam standards:Chief executive of collapsed crypto fund HyperVerse does not appear to exist.

The Festive Silence — or how exhaustion, burn-out and COVID conspired to give me an offline Christmas.

Started reading: A Countryman’s Winter Notebook by Adrian Bell 📚

Took a New Year’s Day beach walk with my eldest, and found somebody’s lost glasses on the strand line. The lenses have been ground into mistiness by the pebbles, and the string tied to one arm suggested a doomed attempt to keep them safe.

Sea-worn glasses. Found on Shoreham Beach.