Taking down the cards - a post of two halves

What with one thing and another, I never actually put out all the Christmas cards: the best of the early arrivals went on the mantelpiece, and the rest were heaped on the coffee table and the filing cabinet in the hall (it's red! that's Christmassy, isn't it!). Yesterday being Twelfth Night and / or Epiphany, I piled them up on the kitchen table, and started to write the post I had promised myself, so that I could at least enjoy looking through the cards as I put them away. ( Cut for long and mildly obsessive: don't feel obliged to be interested )

I counted 112 cards altogether, which explains why I didn't finish the survey before we went out to be told ghost stories as one last Christmas treat, and had to return to the job this afternoon. And now it's time to shake the glitter off my keyboard and go and curry something for dinner.

First photo of the year

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