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A couple of visual delights today: first, the 2003 etc. bauble you will already have noticed. Yes, friends, this is how unapologetic I am about my enthusiasm for the holidays. It’s like this most years, although this year is seeing a particularly early onset. I’m quite certain it has something to do with us being around for the holidays. Last year we went to London for 9 days right after Christmas and as delightful as that was, it didn’t really feel like Christmas because I didn’t bake any chocolate chip meringues for my sister and no ginger snaps for my dad and no gobs of relax time spent with my family. I’ll be making up for that this year, in all sorts of spades.

Also, just when you thought I don’t make good on any of my promises, here are a few pictures from South Korea, in all its mystical, Autumnal splendour. The pictures have been up for weeks but I’ve been waiting on the mister to fill in the captions and even though he still hasn’t done it, I’m unveiling them uncaptioned to shame him into action. For now, suffice it to say that it’s a palace, there’s a library and a women’s residence on the grounds and it was foggy that day. The rest is up to your imagination, go ahead and use it with reckless abandon.