Obligatory end of year meme is obligatory

( So this is kind of vaguely depressing and I censor myself a little less than I have in the past here )

In more cheerful news, Yuletide reveals

I've been a bit remiss in Yuletide-posting this year; I got a lovely gift about Mo from the Laundry Files and how she comes to terms with that seriously creepy violin:

Violins at Work

Alas, it looks like my Mystery Author hasn't written that much else - although I still have a pile of other reading from the rest of the archive...

Despite being out for the entire month of December in NZ, I also managed to write some stuff ( and I waffle about it at length in the rest of this post )