Kurisumasu Ibu

= クリスマス  イブ. Our Dublin Outpost were given leave to return to base on Thursday 21Dec. We are now Dunnes, Dunne [Matt R] DONE! with the [modest] Christmas shopping.

• Tomorrow is Christmas. If you're here in Blobland rather than in the bosom of your family, you'll probably need a play list. There's a nice one compiled by randommers on MetaFilter: Bittersweet it be. 
• If you want to keep your mind limber, and won't do Sudoku, you may enjoy supporting the UK security establishment
  
• GCHQ [2016 prev] 2023 Holiday Puzzle. via Mefi
• Cracking the cryptic cracks it in 30 mins w/o pencil. 
• Timeguessr wants you to infer time and place of 5 glossy photos; again via MeFi
• Jaysus, it's 10 years since I was obsessing about Geoguessr
  

And here's Santa Nollaig:

More later in the week. Not tomo though, I'll be concentrating on rissoles and roasters tomorrow.