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Heating is on the blink with snow outside, so the cat has moved onto my office where I have the electric heater on.

The joys of digging my history book out of the attic from when I was 8. Christmas in the Middle Ages: 'On Christmas Day there was no turkey because turkeys live in America and nobody had discovered America then'. Fair enough. [Pic is of a boar with an orange in its mouth]

I just did my annual donation to Book Trust, which donates books to children who wouldn't have them otherwise. Having books of your own, to keep and re-read, is important.
www.booktrust.org.uk