December 2024 – the dim pause

Posted on December 31, 2024

Still settling 🧀 🍷

A cozy living room features a wooden coffee table with an assortment of cheeses, olives, and snacks, set against the backdrop of a lit fireplace.

Posted on December 31, 2024

Settling down for a quiet New Year’s Eve 🍸

A glass with an ice cube contains a red cocktail next to a small can labeled Pocket Negroni on a wooden surface in a cozy setting.

Posted on December 30, 2024

Watched on Monday December 30, 2024.

Posted on December 29, 2024

🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Arturo Toscanini, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Robert Shaw Chorale & Robert Shaw (53 plays), Beecham, RPO (8), Bob Dylan (6), David Bowie (6), Julian Cope (4)

Posted on December 27, 2024

Our family Christmas dinner this year was a Mexican themed menu 🌮 🇲🇽

Cooked from three cookbooks, with most of the recipes coming from Karla Zazueta’s Authentic Family Recipes from Northern Mexico. All turned out very well 👨‍🍳

Now just polishing off leftovers.

Posted on December 25, 2024

Happy Christmas! Not sure how long she’ll tolerate her #Catmas collar 🐈 🎁

A cat wearing a bowtie sits on a blanket, with a decorated Christmas tree in the background.

Posted on December 24, 2024

🎵 My Top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Julian Cope (11 plays), Arooj Aftab (9), Yannis & The Yaw (6), Furtwängler, BPO (5), Foals (4)

(a couple of days late – forgot to post on Sunday 😞)

Posted on December 22, 2024

Having the first of my Xmas beers 🍺

Bottle and glass of dark beer - Fullers London Porter - on a kitchen worktop. Knife block, chopping board and wooden pestle and mortar in the background.

Posted on December 20, 2024

Watching 📺 my first match in the Big Bash League this year – Adelaide Strikers vs Melbourne Stars. Ollie Pope batting (and keeping) for the Adelaide Strikers 🏏

Posted on December 15, 2024

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