CAN YOU SMELL IT?

I can't - not with this bloody mask which steams up my glasses & bungs up my nose. Winter jasmine.

Lightening visit from the lovely Bien delivering a Christmas hug, a quirky (extra) drawing of me she made when first I came to Belgium 40 years ago. Also Pierre Bensusan's latest CD (extra #2) - you might think after all Bien & I have done for Pierre he'd let us have a couple of complimentary copies?

Pierre is too close to his pennies for freebies - he did send virtual hugs however. Ho hum...