Storm Rising – Very Useful

This year on Christmas Day, I walked along our beach to find it bathed in a strange bright light that shimmered eerily on the silver-grey sea. A sure sign the local fishermen say that a storm is rising. And it did; we had hours of howling gales, rain and highly-energised angry white-capped seas.

Nothing beats Sachertorte

The perfect excuse to chomp my way through the Sachertorte, which had been carefully transported from Innsbruck, and fistfuls of sweets that had been hiding in the Advent Calendar waiting for their time.