TUESDAY 26
Between White Christmas
and chestnuts, Shiny Happy
People takes its turn.
WEDNESDAY 27
Portraits of clerics
in scarlet round the room where
we redact and write.
THURSDAY 28
An Bulmer’s cider
bottle on a low wall, a
crushed can on the ground.
FRIDAY 29
Frozen moss around
the pavement slabs and blocks is
the brightest spring green.
SATURDAY 30
Sunny photographs
from Jaipur, scarcely higher
than freezing outside.
SUNDAY 1
Advent, the start of
darkest days, but light through the
window is blinding.
MONDAY 2
Happy Stitchmas says
the haberdashery, cloth
and yarn shop A-board.
Seventeen 