- Oasis, Gap and Accessorize: three of my favourite shops. It’s probably just as well they don’t have branches in Vigo as I would spend far too much money.
- Eccles cakes – a concoction of raisins and flaky pastry which shouldn’t work but does.
- Infant school nativity plays with fidgety little people busily waving to mummy, picking their nose and taking their costume off.
- Mince pies – my granddaughter wants to know why they are not available all year round like hot cross buns, once only sold for Good Friday.
- Reading Spanish newspapers online and discovering that one of my favourite Spanish singers, Juan Manuel Serrat, has just been awarded the Premio Nacional de las Músicas Actuales 2009. According to the newspapers “el jurado ha querido destacar su «incuestionable talento y trayectoria»; su influencia en el imaginario popular, «que ha trascendido generaciones»; su permanente presencia en los escenarios con Serrat cien por cien, y el hecho de haber puesto la música al «servicio de los grandes poetas».”
- Singing Christmas carols in Manchester cathedral and unexpectedly meeting old friends there.
- Winter sunsets from industrial parks.
- Snow ... provided I don’t have to drive in it.
- Gritters making the roads safe for me to drive on.
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