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"Counterfactuals" are "what ifs" for people who think their imaginations deserve a loftier title.

How am I only discovering lemon pigs now?

schrödinger: cat with a gun: I said get in the box

Today’s festive #AshmoleanAdvent treat is Utagawa Kuniyoshi’s beautiful ‘View of snow on Benten Hill’ at Kinryūzan Temple in Asakusa.

✨It rarely gets the centre of attention because of the lantern tower but the 12th Romanesque nave at Ely Cathedral is jaw-dropping - so I put my tilt-shift lens to use..📸

The convenient thing about how the term “woke” has evolved is that it allows me to quickly identify patently unserious people when they use it.

Today’s poem is called ‘A Traditional Family Christmas’.

At my most diligent, I can take care of a box of mini Stollen over two cups of tea.

Aye, right. I wish.

Top tip. Wife has just worked out how to turn the festive Mariah Carey earworm so prevalent at this time of year seamlessly into the tune of Theme From Flood by They Might Be Giants, and I hope that this knowledge could save a lot of people a lot of grief.

A useful reminder. I wish I’d realised years ago how little it matters to be good at something you enjoy.

Reckon we should just adopt the best word from any language and all go with it. Schnee’s in, and Schnecke instead of snail?

cartoon of the day