December Favourites

 I think 2025 was a long hard year for many - so I hope 2026 brings at least some good things.

My header photo is our neighbour's lobster claw shrub which overhangs our side gate and sheds copiously into our back yard, but which is very pretty at certain times of year. The photo was on a very frosty day last January - and it looks as if we have plenty of cold weather on the way in the next couple of weeks. 

I don't actually have many December card favourites - one Christmas card, one Paul Klee-inspired card and a thank you card which will go to my sister-in-law who always hosts a family get-together a day or two after Christmas. I think this was a hard one for her, because their brother who died in September was the next in age to her, and in recent years he had always been with them on Christmas Day.