Easing into Christmas slowly....

A few months of various health problems, my usual painkillers being unavailable - which I found quite oddly disorienting - then I wandered into a persistent infection.

And I've turned 72 - so I suppose none of that is especially surprising.  However: I have completed a very late Christmas card, herewith, and have several drawings to be turned into paintings.

At last, having retired from most of my offices in the Labour Party - not an entirely happy decision, but I was getting too frazzled with it all - I have read more books than you could shake a stick at, if that struck you as being a good idea, in the last few months.  

If I can finally shake the remains of this infection off, I might even do a bit of work in the New Year......