Used the winter solstice as an excuse to practice the fine art of the roast dinner and produced a table groaning under the weight of a Yule dinner. As usual i cooked far too much, so i really must find some additional friends to invite along to such things.

Went to finish that last minute crimble shopping for family, shops are hectic as usual, but it all feels kind of wrong somehow, having had the blow-out dinner and present exchanges, and the number of sales that have started already, it seems like this should be the lull between xmas and new year.

Ah well, means theres more time for me to knuckle down to shifting all the mail and services off my old server to the nice new one, before the old one gets turned off in the new year.