Cold out. 🥶

K-Day minus 2

K-Day minus 5

24 hours after finishing Christmas lunch, there's still more of gravy than the grave about me, but only just.

He's been! He's been!

Selected #haul

Sausage roll garland. Breakfast of Champions.

Obligatory Christmas Day visit to the tiny horse sensation and Wimbledon celebrity, Mr Fudge

Happy Christmas everyone! 🎁 🌲 And it's just ONE week to New Kitten Day, when we're joined by this little one. She's busy unwrapping her presents now.

A Christmassy KC - Day Twenty-Four Where else to end this journey but on the best of Christmas films - courtesy of @citizensane.bsky.social Happy Christmas everyone!

A Christmassy KC - Day Twenty-Three If you're a barrister, and it's Christmas, and you wear dodgy jumpers then there's really no better role model. Thanks to @sarahrobsonbarrister.co.uk for this glorious scene.

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever" I've finished work for Christmas. I'm going in.

A Christmassy KC - Day Twenty-Two The antepenultimate offering is this Fairy Tale scene of scumbags and maggots, courtesy of @johnbeck_

A Christmassy KC - Day Twenty-One and a bit Apologies for the delay - yesterday was a bit full on and I missed my slot. Appropriately, this image from @hagster69.bsky.social captures a less familiar aspect of Christmas...

Final dog meet of my pre-Christmas weekend in Staffordshire is Dottie. Dottie is 4 months old and is enjoying her new lobster.

A Christmassy KC - Day 20. It's the business end of the Advent period and time to up the ante, courtesy of Dubz, in one of his incarnations. "Yippee ki yay, Santa"

Popped to my sisters to deliver Christmas presents and Billy wants to say hi to everyone

A Christmassy KC - Day Nineteen What could be more Christmassy than emerging headfirst from the anus of a reindeer during a game of Countdown? And it's all thanks to the unique photoshopping skills of @RachelRileyRR

If you're a Netflix person you could do a lot worse than Death by Lightning - a 4 part miniseries about the assassination of James Garfield in 1881. Excellent cast and remarkably entertaining.

A Christmassy KC - Day Eighteen. Incorporated by @sirarthurindeed.bsky.social into Walthamstow's finest for the musical version of 'Yes, but is it a Christmas thing', East 17's Stay Another Day.

Bought myself a Christmas present to commemorate 43 years since I received a Christmas present

A Christmassy KC - Day Seventeen. After the commercialisation of yesterday, it's back to the true meaning of Christmas today with shepherds from @graceldn.bsky.social. Only two of these three guys are associated with crooks.

Cold out.

For your collective delectation this holiday season: Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!) loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...

A Christmassy KC - Day Sixteen Time to embrace the corporate delights of Christmas shopping with this elegant depiction, courtesy of the folks at @lidlgb.bsky.social Don't cut back on jury trials to save money - sponsor them!

I may have gone slightly overboard with the Treeselets this year. Current status: 3 pots full 1 pot in progress 9 pots empty And pretty much all my own work. Allegedly that's 10000 calories of Treeselets....

A Christmassy KC - Day Fifteen A special favourite which sees me feature in the background of the World's Most Aggressive Christmas Card. Thanks to @stuartmwrites.bsky.social

OK. I'll just go and wash my hands somewhere else, shall I?

A Christmassy KC - Day Fourteen It's been a busy day, and I'd almost forgotten my Advent Calendar. Top Christmas action here, from @soph_cheekbones on Twitter

I think that went well. I also got carefully checked out by her brother and sister, who have their own homes to go to.

Off into that London for @theresthistory.bsky.social Athelstan Christmas Party. Hottest gig in town.

It has been just over eight months since we lost Dayve (pictured here on her 19th birthday). We're now hoping to end our catlessness early in the New Year and so we're being interviewed by a kitten tomorrow. Exciting times.

A Christmassy KC - Day Thirteen Today's offering is a somehow overlooked marketing crossover for those who like a little Snowball in their '70s life (ask your [grand]parents). Other possible cocktails include 'Fluffy Duck' and the less salubrious 'Broken Nose'. Thanks to @voxterrier.bsky.social

This is splendid.

A Christmassy KC - Day Twelve I've had a very annoying day, so I'm going to go with this cheery offering, thanks to @SkyHighFreeFlyGuy And no, I'm not in a kimono. Foxes are safe this Christmas.

This is splendid.

A Christmassy KC - Day Eleven This is one of my favourites, and looking at it counts as one of your five-a-day. Kudos to @richbro76960483 from the Twitter.

Mandarin Ducks to brighten December. Plus free heron.

A Christmassy KC - Day Ten A traditional chilly Christmassy scene thanks to @JustFoties of Twitter, featuring me (left) with Santa and a reindeer.

A Christmassy KC - Day Nine Sometimes the idea is there, even if the execution of the photoshop is not the *most* seamless. I'm adding my gifts to the All Gold, Frankenstein and GRRRRRR! of the Bottom Christmas special, thanks to @loopyblonde.bsky.social

A Christmassy KC - Day Eight This purports to be a photoshop, but obviously it is in fact me in my natural habit and habitat, angelically dangling from a tree. Thanks to @deborahhyde.bsky.social for the verisimilitude

So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10

A Christmassy KC - Day Seven When I asked for Christmassification, I wasn't expecting the level of art that appeared. I certainly wasn't expecting quality like this, from @keriwarbis.bsky.social

A Christmassy KC - Day Six On a cold Saturday in December, what could be more festive than George Bailey KC, creation of the fabulous @fionadolman.bsky.social. "Remember, no man is a failure who has Learned Friends"

A Christmassy KC - Day Six On a cold Saturday in December, what could be more festive than George Bailey KC, creation of the fabulous @fionadolman.bsky.social. "Remember, no man is a failure who has Learned Friends"

A Christmassy KC - Day Five It's Cchhhhrrrrrisssstttmmmaaasssssssssss!!!! Or very nearly. And tonight I'm appearing as everyone's* favourite Noddy, Mr. Holder of Slade, courtesy of @dachshundcolin.bsky.social *Apart from Big Ears'

Beautiful cold morning on the Common

A Christmassy KC - Day Four Today's picture is newly provided by @missixti.bsky.social and is not, so far as I can tell, ghastly AI. Very cheerful it is too, although it carries the threat of imminent dunking, severe burns and the difficulty of getting cocoa out of one's wig.

A Christmassy KC - Day Three Another old favourite for its simplicity, and the fact it covers most of my face, is this effort from @stephenmcgann.uk. I also like the gloves which look snooker referee, but knowing Stephen are probably inspired by 1960s midwifery.