I can't believe that my blog is AGAIN being taken over by covid... Now it's Omicron, and the need to access booster vaccines (NOT EASY...). Unfortunately, I'm sure I'll be writing more about this in the days to come...

Meanwhile, this week saw us writing our annual retrospective (not cheerful).

And mid-winter continues to creep closer. Sunrise today was at 0808; sunset was at 1546; so our hours and minutes of daylight totalled 7 and 38 respectively... Aaaargh, we're running out of LIGHT!

We have had some stunning mornings and evenings, though:





To combat the darkness, we've been putting up the Christmas lights:




As have many of our neighbours:


And you can always keep up your spirits with cheese (here we have Dorset Red and smoked Wensleydale) and a nice glass of port:


To close, another couple of emblematic pics from the Newark gallery: