Lots of nice gifts for all including the dogs. Today we had a lovely dinner in the afternoon and all chilled. Happy to just be here in one piece and just enjoy the day. Bed soon. Tired.

In the last of the afternoon light on a remarkably mild Christmas Eve. It was 12c this afternoon and could almost have been a spring day - there are wild garlic shoots already poking through the ...

The girls posing in front of the tree. Beautiful pooches.

Home baked sausage rolls for the staff. Better get them quick before Dave eats them.

Leica SL2-S 1/3333 f/8.0 600mm 6400 ...

Third Christmas dinner in three days, this time at Harvey Nicks in Leeds. Just had the main course. So three very different venues, a local pub, a family run restaurant in Ilkley and then today.

In the frying pan - flavored with green pepper. Soon to be fried - flavored with green curry. We don't want to give our guests a bad experience - so of course we tasted the meatballs. My co chef (and ...

A trip down to the beautiful Scottish Borders to say goodbye to Auntie Jinit today. Beforehand we popped by the hallowed turf of The Greenyards, home of Melrose Rugby Club and birthplace of Rugby 7s ...

Maybe a slightly morbid connotation to my title, but rather, I refer to decomposition of organic matter. When the ice recedes, decaying leaves and such are revealed. It's a marginal time between ...