Christmas glow

ho-ho-hope you're having a good Christmas!

the clip's breathtaking anyway

Earth ~ the new film that's been five years in the making.

Thanks to Disha for the link!

cutting remarks about Zimbabwe

John Sentamu, Archbishop of York, clearly moved Andrew Marr on his live tv show this morning as they talked about the scandal of Zimbabwe.

The snipping noise of John Sentamu cutting up his dog collar on air was as crisp as the message he put across.

The full interview had dignity and clarity. Thanks John and Andrew.

paperless advent!

Something to do this year instead of taking photos of Christmas light decorations around my neighbourhood ... from the Greenbelt website, I just spotted this. Real delight, even though it's curiously called "paperless Christmas". And yes - I know Advent doesn't start until Saturday, but I did sneak a look at door number 1 ...

Thanks to its creators, whoever you are.

sustenance

Returning from a few days' happy, sunny journey around Cumbria, Northumberland and Scotland, I still had the wrapper from the delicious Selkirk Bannock I'd bought on Lindisfarne on Monday and been munching en route since.

To give it its full title it's Dalgetty's Famous Original Selkirk Bannock: naturally rich fruit bread - made with butter

It's certainly delicious so I went to the web to see if I could buy some online. Not sure if I really want to pay all that but the bonus is that I stumbled on information about Dalgetty's Selkirk Bannock on 'Practically Edible' - a delightful website for foodies around the world. Among its delights is a 'food calendar' which celebrates food and recipes. How about this quote from Henry James (American writer. 15 April 1843 – 28 February 1916):

It might seem that an egg which has succeeded in being fresh has done all that can reasonably be expected of it.

And apparently today is "Homemade Bread Day".

Northumberland, Scotland and Cumbria were looking stunning this week and Russell and Sue's car was on best behaviour so I indulged it in a photoshoot on Lindisfarne - thanks R&S!

picture of paradox

Following m o d e 's images yesterday, today AmmarQ8 has a powerful image relating to global warming.

Stop the warming