Watching Ghostbusters...just saw the twin towers in the background...you can't beat the 80's...

Rentaghost on BBC Four at 7.15pm tonight. Yippee!

First below freezing walk in a while, the first of the season in tracksuit bottoms. Almost six miles completed. Lovely clear Arctic air.... good for the old bronchioles...

#np Richard Hawley. Like The Rain. Jingly Sheffield tune...

Loving the cold weather. Proper cold. Arctic cold...nitheringly cold. Clean pure air...etc...

This feels like the beginning of the longest year ever...

Watching Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing again....

Four mile walk completed as dawn broke. Crystal clear sky, cold air. ...like an ice bath for the lungs. Blissful.

So, it'll cost over £3K for a World Cup Final ticket. I always thought that the whole game is corrupt. It's just blatantly so now. Don't feed the greed!

Rereading Larkin after listening to Larkin Revisited on BBB Radio Four...

Seven mile walk completed. Grey and cold and miserable but no rain or wind. Time to drink three pints of water now and sit on my tired arse...

It's very late.. I'm wankered...but strangely unwankered...

Christmas jumpers are fucking brilliant, why? Because if you see a bunch of blokes walk into a pub wearing them you instantly know they're all loud mouthed cunts who can't handle their drink.

My youngest son ate 32 sprouts... he's suffering now...*hahaha*

The best bit of my Christmas dinner was sausage stuffing. It didn't taste of sage & onion stuffing, it didn't taste of sausage...it tasted of something else entirely...something fairly pleasant, smashing even, memorable..unlike boring turkey.

Just watched old episodes of Gone Fishing... wonderful always...although Roy finds Ted annoying...

Four mile Christmas walk completed. Nithering out though...my sprouts are still firm and unyielding. Happy Christmas one and all.

Man at C&A sings about Lady in Red...

I like that Bob Cratchit gives the whole family, including tiny Tim gin punch...sounds bloody lethal .Good work Bob.

Slab of pork pie, mug of Earl Grey and Alastair Sim as Ebenezer on the tellybox..perfect.

And No to the Poll Tax...Hurrah!

East of Ipswich is on telly tonight....set in Southwold I believe?

I've over- brown buffeted....

York Minster...scrubbed up nicely...

Eldest son back for Christmas. He bought an M&S pork pie...£16! That's a week's wages up north...

Watching BBC Four...Roy Hattersley talking about Philip Larkin ..poems read by a young( ish) Judi Dench and Alan Bennett..a programme from the 80's...serious thoughtful television. Very enjoyable.

My granddad and his favourite dog Peggy...

When Chris De Burgh sings about the Lady In Red I always think it's Divine...

Everybody Wants To Rule The World by Tears For Fears is fairly wonderful...

Gonna watch Dad's Army. I'm old,me.

I've been enjoying Mad Friday with the elderly neighbours. There were homemade pickled onions however, which made the evening bearable.

Mad Friday innit?

* nods thoughtfully*

I have taken delivery of the Yuletide Radio Times. Hurrah. Here is a photo of Roy jealousy guarding last year's copy...

Portentous sunrise...

The sky was lovely tonight, a reward for surviving all the rain, or for me listening to an entire Phil Collins album as I cooked....

Back in York after visiting mother...off to the pub...walking past the Minster..I love these street lamps...

Do blokes own a Christmas jumper? I don't.. it's not compulsory...yet.

Having to dig around on the channels to find some old " Gone Fishing" to get my Ted fix..

It's only watching #Strictly that I wish I'd danced at more family occasions.. christenings,weddings...the other..

I think I have lard on my mind...having had none for my Yorkshire puddings...

Winkleman's legs have a lardy sheen...in a good way though...

I hate the word " gifted".. am I alone?

My steamed sprouts, enjoying a butter bath...

Fast four mile walk then a high protein breakfast of sardines and hard- boiled eggs on toast. Definitely not eaten for pleasure...😕

We don't see as many bellybuttons these days...is this a good thing? #totp

I've eaten my first Brussels sprouts of the season tonight...with the full moon upon us.Exciting times...

I have had my winter haircut....it's very short. I shall be sleeping in a hat and scarf for a number of days until my neck acclimatizes...