It's not like all the Christmases I've had

Aye up. It's Christmas, you know the drill. I head up to my parents' housein Durham, and write a post about how we have a nice fire and lots of beer and so on.

( Well. )

I hope you're OK. Whatever you do, or don't do, for Christmas: have a good one.

I is for the icing on the cake as sweet as sugar cane

Oh, I forgot. Additional...

Christmas content! I have a very short Christmas story that was published a few days ago, you can read it on the Gray Sisters website if you're interested. Be warned, though... it was written and submitted some months ago, when I didn't know that a bleak and miserable Christmas story was literally the last thing anyone would want.

I've also created a set of puzzles, after the manner of Puzzled Pint puzzles. They're intended to be mostly quite easy (someone with no Puzzled Pint experience polished them all off in the space of an afternoon, with only a couple of hints). If anyone would like them to take them for a spin, leave me a comment and I'll send you the PDF! (Or drop me a mail if you think I won't have your address - my domain is blacktreacle dot com and anything sensible will reach me.)