20+ years ago when this @officialhornby set came out I was a pupil Downside Abbey school. Every day I walked past in the main hall looking wistfully at it! I’ve always wanted it but never had a chance - and two decades later I finally snapped one up! With a certificate (e) signed

Tis the season for polystyrene planes! Tally ho!

A December birthday means my Christmas project with the sprogs will be building our first (Wilesco) steam engine together!

Every year the 🇺🇸 & 🇨🇦 heroes at North American Aerospace Defense Command spend today delivering a very special mission NORAD Tracks Santa. Kids all around the country can call and find out where Santa is right now!

One of the things I love so much about Florida is the FLORIDA DOT highway warning signs. Wonderful thoughtful jokes and puns!

Any time someone argues that Santa doesn’t exist… in a modern version of the argument used in Miracle on 34th Street - you should point out that the US and Canadian government commit a whole operation to tracking Santa every years. Would they, were he not real?

Seven year old thinks he’s too cool to call NORAD Tracks Santa. Suddenly freaks out at bed time. Calls NORAD. We get the charming “Matthew”. Proceeds almost to give his full address “please tell Santa I live there”. The pure pursuit of happiness! ❤️🇺🇸

Florida’s a real place whether you like it or not. You don’t need to understand it, just accept it!

All around the world, including in Winter Park, FL, Adeste Fideles closes Christmas mass. It’s amazing that a carol, used by Jacobites secretly to share the birth of The Bonnie Price as they suffered persecution and murder, has become the sound of the start of Xmas.

So the beast has been curried. All is right in the world.

Mushrooms on toast is a massively underrated breakfast.

The inimitable Dave Ramsey has written many posts, this might be his most consequential.

Peak beauty.

This is the kind of thing AI can fix. Instant court transcripts, available to all. If there’s a will.

I came for the comedy, I stayed to witness history. Reliable information on the situation in Iran is hard to come by. Omid Djalili is an excellently dependable commentator.

Like Omid Djalili, Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن is an excellent follow right now.

In our Florida parish during the advent confession evening there were more than five priests with lines that each lasted longer than two hours… not sure this is the take.

There’s a word in Welsh “hiraeth”. It describes a bittersweet longing, a wistful nostalgia, a profound spiritual incompleteness while absent from the homeland. It’s untranslatable from welsh - but looking at this pic IYKYK.

And with that the perfect Christmas with @katlashw & the sprogs is done! #happynewyear2026 #merrychristmas❤️ Time for #wethreekings👑 #epiphany

When you rent a car in the UK… get the damage waiver!