He's a well-known local character, and works very hard. (Whether his work is effective could be debated, but he does work hard.)

You're welcome. It's not going anywhere 😀

Thanks, fingers crossed. It was clearly never a very serious break, but neither is her ankle as flexible as it used to be.

I shall have to! I've always felt that the music on his editions of In Tune lined up rather well with my own tastes!

I agree, but is a Christmas dinner complete without the overcooked-and-bathed-in-turkey-juices pigs in blankets? I'm not sure.

If it's anything like the canisters we use in our soda stream, it would be a very large shotgun. More artillery-sized...

On the plus side, it's bright pink!

For its simplicity, Holst's In the bleak midwinter.

Good plan! I might enact that... (though I had fun last year doing engineering with toilet rolls)