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My friend Billy's wife, Kate Gross, has been writing some pretty amazing stuff recently.

Here's something to think about as you prepare for Christmas.

Grantchester Meadows this morning.

One of the (many) things I love about my Fuji X-Pro 1 is that most of the key controls are good old buttons and dials, not touchscreens and menus. This is particularly handy when you're wearing gloves...

The moon was up as I walked Tilly this morning.

Today, in an astonishing feat of daring exploration, I doubled my culinary repertoire.

I cooked some pasta!

(Up to this point in my life, I had only ever tried baked potatoes.)

It turns out not to be too hard, as long as someone else has made the sauce.

I also used a colander for the first time. That was easy too.

Finding the cupboard in which Rose keeps such things, on the other hand...

It's been a pretty grim month here, from a weather point of view, but there are still some nice colours around. This is just outside my study door.