I am midway through BBC4's showing of the brilliant "All Aboard: The Sleigh Ride", which is what it says it is: a two-hour live-action journey across the Norwegian tundra by two women and their three reindeer. What is it about it that one cannot seem to drag one's eyes away from the trudging? I don't know, but I was soon transported into a kind of zen-like state of calm most unusual for the Christmas period.
All I know is it is compelling television, and a kind that is catching on in Scandi big time: wood fires burning, even someone knitting a woolly jumper. I see it as a revolt from the blaring, tawdry razzle-dazzle of such things as Strictly and the X Factor.
After an hour I popped outside for a pee, and high in the sky a near-full moon was escorted by a great Moondog, a huge pearly halo dogging its path across the heavens. My little Christmas gift, albeit a day early.
Have a good one everybody.
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