• Radio4 programmes especially Crossing Continents (click to listen again) and a very strange afternoon play, which I can't find the link to, about a Scottish pregnant woman having bizarre conversations with her very wise, unborn child. Especially relating to shop-lifting and reincarnation. Very strange but hilarious.
• Taking photos of stunning sunsets and sunrises (see below) - there are few things so sublime.
  
  



• Making festive flapjacks in a warm kitchen, dog begging for any edibles that might be going spare. And managing to feed, warm and converse with my tired husband after a long, cold and dark commute home.
• Love My Way, a quirky Australian drama, as dark as it is funny. It has become required watching on Sundays and Fridays.
• Getting my husband to take a day off yesterday, and spending the day in Alnwick, behaving like giddy teenagers in love (except we didn't smoke, swear or drink...). Then coming home to a snuggly house, to spend the afternoon crafting (he's got the crafty gene too) various oddments, including xmas cards and decorations.
• Cold, bright mornings. The sun is often so low it's completely blinding, but it is wonderful to see the first signs of frost on the fields, and how warming the sun really is.
• Getting ready for xmas. That means getting the decorations down from the loft, testing all the lights, burning Yankee Candle Mistletoe candles all over the house and baking seasonal scrummies.
• Playing Scrabble in the evening and managing to put "runic" down on a triple word score, which ensured I won, although I did have an awful selection of letters all evening!