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May it be a truly wondrous Christmas for all of us.

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Durham Cathedral in the snow.

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£2.99 + a walk around the neighbourhood + a leftover ornament = one Christmas centerpiece.

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Snowflake!!!

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4.17 pm.

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Pretty!

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We got the very last tree the castle garden centre had. It had to thaw before we could even see what it looked like.

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This Christmas brought to you by amazon.co.uk.

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SNOW!!!

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How many lecturers does it take to write a first-year lab report?

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My orchid is blooming! My orchid is blooming!

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The remains of a seven-liter box of cookies after a day with my colleagues.

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Because nothing says "Christmas" like a gingerbread hedgehog.

Except maybe a gingerbread moose. Or a gingerbread snail. Hmm.

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Christmas pudding truffles. Yum.

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I, er, um, seem to have misplaced the photo I took today. So here's one I took wayyyyy back at the beginning (of December) when I still had a brain. Well, sort of.

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This framed watercolour came from a local junk shop for the princely sum of £5.

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Getting this blind up involved a hilarious comedy of misunderstanding with my officemate Helen, which I cannot possibly explain.

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Give me light!

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Oh, were you sitting here?

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Physics in action: refraction.

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Our front door.

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Physics in action: thin film interference.

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Our new (to us) Edwardian wardrobe.

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The yucca my lovely nutty officemates got me for Thanksgiving. Note the little New Mexico flag!

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A frosty first of December.