Merry Christmas, everyone. Have a fun day wherever you are (especially you Japan workers who will be...erm... working...) and I hope that the New Year is full of cool stuff and special treats and dreams-coming-true.

The flowers in this photo are frangipani's. They smell great and in fact, as I type, I can smell the frangipani tree outside in my Uncles yard. It's quite intoxicating. Hmmm. Or is this intoxicating sensation just from the large glass of absolutely magnificent 4-sisters semillon savignon blanc by my laptop? OK, I might have to put it down to a heady combination of the 2, with the added bonus of the mosquito coil in my verandah doorway.