Forget Bad Santa…this is bad Nora. Bad Nora has hit the 22nd of December and failed to meet the Christmas card postal deadline. To my overseas readers I would like to add special remonstrations of regret and embarrassment, having gone to the particular effort in November of purchasing Amnesty cards, OS stamps and airmail stickers. They are coming…and so is Christmas and obviously we know which will arrive first!

I was driving the streets of Canterbury yesterday evening – along the Ridge to be precise – to once more glimpse the amazing circuitry created by a local resident. According to the statistics he used 30, 208 lights, 9km of wire and 72 digital channels to create an incredible sequence which includes house interior/exterior, roof of house, garden shrubs and tree. There is a collection tin on the fence, not for the power bill but for the Lighthouse Foundation – a charity in aid of troubled youths. I believe this has been reported elsewhere on the blogosphere but do get out of the car if you go!!

Finally I would like to wish my readers a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. If my own Jack Russell Terrier would only pose nicely I too could be sending these out.
Ciao for Now.