I'd love to have this as my Christmas lights!

Have yourselves an enjoyable, and relaxing, time everybody. Cheers!

Snowy,  Flowy,  Blowy,

Showery,  Flowery,  Bowery,

Hoppy, Croppy, Droppy,

Breezy, Sneezy, Freezy.

George  Ellis  [1753-1815, born England]  was, according to his friend Sir Walter Scott, a great conversationalist.  Ellis was a literary critic, and satirist, and published volumes of selections of early poetical literature. This little verse is a brilliant summary of the whole year's weather.

to everyone who reads this blog, and especially those of you who kindly comment...MrFlighty

I only give, or send, less than twenty Christmas cards to family, friends and others. I bought them today in the local Cancer Research UK shop.

The back of the card packs inform me that All net profit from the sale of this pack is covenanted to Cancer Research UK, and that the cards are produced in the UK.

I shall dispose of the cards that I receive as I did last year by taking part in the excellent Christmas Card Recycling Scheme.

Reading EllieGant's Dead Common entry in which she had googled her blog and real names reminded me that I've not done that for a while.

It's something that I think we probably all do from time to time, and I'm sure that we find the results interesting.

My original blog name FlightBuff was chosen to reflect my lifelong interest in aviation. When I first googled it  three years ago I was surprised that  it came up with no results.  Nowadays because the blog is inactive there are only about 1,660 results, all of which I presume relate to me.

Flighty generates just under 100,000 hits, but I can see, and know, that many of them are certainly not about me.  This blog name, MrFlighty, results in a far more modest 5,700 hits, most of which I would guess are probably about me.

As to my real name that produces 356,000 results. I find that I'm a jazz singer like Ellie, a professional road cycle racer, a congressman and, the one I like best, a futurist in residence at a notable American newspaper.

As to whether the real me is among all those thousands of entries I don't know, and really don't care enough to be bothered to try and find out.