Idle Year-End Advent Train of Thought. Musings on nothing and everything

It is that time of the year again when I put down my headhunting gear and reflect on another year gone and what is to come. This year that reflection is especially fuelled by taking leave of my work for all of December to enjoy some new treats such as English truffle-hunting and hedge-laying. ( On the truffle hunt the gorgeous Italian truffle-hound found just shy of 2 kilos of truffles in a friends woods here in the UK, which 20 of us ate in their entirety for a very rich lunch!! “She-who-must-be-obeyed” and I also found TV stardom on local Wiltshire BBC TV, spending the day wallowing in mud to plant 100 metres of about 850 metres of new hedging to form part of an extensive habitat for endangered Tree Sparrows on a friends farm. Lucky sparrows will have an enviable hotel with room service meals on tap 24X7. A lovely time in the countryside ruined only by the infernal whining aerial drone of the TV crew!! They had a drone and they were going to use it!!!)