Churchill, again

I thought I'd start the year 2023 off with a proper print, rather than the promised 'Nearly made it' set from 2022, which I'll get to later.  You might recall seeing this shot before (here) but this is the lith version, which I like very much:

Churchill, County Donegal.  Hasselblad, Ilford PanF 50 film, on Foma 131 paper (Moersch Easylith developer)

We didn't stay up to welcome in the New Year but elected to retire early to bed, partly but not wholly on account of the fact that Missy wasn't well.  She'd had a bout of Scarlet Fever about a month ago while over in Oxford.  Eventually, after some persuading, her GP over there gave her antibiotics which seemed to do the trick.  Or so we thought.  But they'd only given her 3 day's worth and clearly it didn't clear up the bug completely, so back it came with a vengeance just before the New Year.  She got some more antibiotics and spent about 3 days sleeping it off.  She's back on her feet now and hopefully this time around the infection will be properly blitzed.

Another factor in our early-to-bed decision was that we no longer watch live TV.  We never watched a lot of TV but in the long winter nights you need something to look at it.  Over the last while we found ourselves watching less and less live TV and streaming more content over the likes of Netflix.  BBC have all but given up on decent content, it seems - and the prime time offerings from the independent stations never really held much interest for us, truth be told - I can't abide all those reality shows (un-reality shows, surely).   In previous New Year's Eves we would have tuned into Jools Holland's music extravaganza but (spoiler alert) we found out that it was recorded in July, so that ruined the whole authenticity of the programme for us.  When you know the whole countdown-to-midnight thing is fake it somehow renders the rest of it rather false too.  Or at least it did for us.  First-world problems, eh?  Anyway, if you are reading this, Thank you! and I hope you have a healthy and creative 2023!