All ready.

The tree is up and decorated. The stairs have been vacuumed and the bannisters polished.

Now if I left it at that, all of which is of course true, I wonder how many blip followers would think that this was the entrance hall to Knottman Towers?

The truth is that Mrs.K.will be doing a great deal of cooking in the next ten days. So it seemed fair that today she should go out for lunch at a moderately posh hotel. The food was very good and we enjoyed ourselves.

The extra shows a distinguished figure by the front door. Nothing like that on my house.