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Sunny sunny sunny harbour... but very very very cold so lazy me stayed in the car for this one.

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The rules for completing a UFO... in this case, for someone with a left shoulder closer to their left ear than their right shoulder is to their right ear. NASA, we have a problem.

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Today has been about editing a programme... in peace and quiet and (eventually) warmth. It's also been about prayer and concern for a little girl in Haiti.

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When you head north for peace and quiet to work and the boiler blanks your every request (again) and you have to call out the lovely Danny (again) and the very bones of the building are colder than a Siberian winter, an open fire is the answer to most questions.

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A very blurry shot up the hall at panto rehearsal. Suited the mood - as I was a bit blurry on what I was supposed to be playing.

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Only wish I could add the right smell to the photo - cinnamon, star anise, poaching plums and the nutmeg for the rice pudding which is in the oven.

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Playing hide and seek with a three year old..... "any one seen the l'il guy?" Oh for such innocence.

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Sunday lunch - always hazardous with a three-year old pirate on the attack.

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Today was all about a pre-recorded programme for Radio Ulster - to be broadcast on Burns Night. This toast came at the end of the addressing - and stabbing of - the haggis.

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The skating rink outside the office at sunrise... cleverly disguised as a junction. Yick photo, but it was a busy day.

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Now that's cold. Brrrr.

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A week is sadly, a very long time in politics, but how often do we hear words like repentance, forgiveness and mercy used in public life?

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Distractions. Today was full of them. I kept, uh, losing the thread of what I was doing......
My father made this for me a while back and it's just one of those quirky things I really love.

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This evening was the annual trip to the panto for my cousin's children. (Oh yes it was....) Dan Gordon has to be the funniest dame in the business.

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Hmmm..... first day back after the Christmas break. Glad to have a job...no, really!
"Rejoice in all things".....?!!!!

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One Sunday a month I help out with the music at a local church. This evening, the heating put up a pretty feeble resistance to the -4 temps outside. My hands were freezing cold and it made for a few interesting chords.

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The harbour at Donaghadee - lovely, relaxing end of the holiday lunch at Pier 36 with friends - chilly day, so snapped this one before getting back into friend's car (landrover....yum.)

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Yikes... nearly missed the boat and not because the cove was moonlit - couldn't get the new camera software to load without jiggering the entire system. Will have to re think the download method or this 365 melarkey will last a week at most. Anyway - pretty wick pic, out an upstairs window (baltic outside) but a corker of a moon reflecting on the cove and it sort of worked for me anyway.
For the curious, Ali's to blame - again. 365 photos for 2010.... 1 a day I gather, so can't buck them all into one post! Tempting!!! Check out the links on the right for others doing the project - and they'll link you to others if you're interested.

29 Christmas Diners

...and before someone wise cracks that I've turned into the Vicar of Dibley (comparisons have been made) I didn't eat all the turkey meals.... it's the number gobbled in this house in the space of a few days.

I love my family and my friends, but next year, it will be different.

We'd the seasonal gathering of my favourite people over the space of five days and it was great - though exhausting. Pictured below, "the second day of Christmas" crowd - that's boxing day up north and St Stephen's to my republican listeners.. not sure what the three Welsh folk call it.