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I've read that he was actually as bad a driver as he acted in the series.

Not the location of Nora's cottage. That's on Scarfold. The cattle market was on Hollowgate, and the handrail is on the steps leading to a row of shops/cafés. If you continued in the direction that the camera is pointed, then curved to the right to cross the bridge, then immediately turned left...

His welding equipment (miniaturized, of course).

The apron he wore while cooking.

In my family, we don't exchange gifts, but my niece and her daughters make treats for everyone, just as she and her mother did, and her mother and grandmother before her. So we're not only given something good to eat, we're participating in an historical tradition.

And that they've delivered to the correct address.

My preference for Christmas (or any) dinner is roast beef, gravy, roasted root veg, followed by a small slice each of the three standard (in my family) pies, apple, mince, cherry. The only thing turkey is good for is the thigh and drumstick meat in hash, with minced cooked potatoes, minced...

BTW, the temporary gazebo toward the front of the square is Santa's grotto. He had a good number of visitors shortly after 5:00 PM yesterday. During the rest of the year, there are tables and chairs set out in the square for anyone to use.

And now we head into the light! The growing season will start soon, and there will be sufficient fresh food for man and beast.

Here's the EarthCam of one of the best city squares in the country, in the city just down the road from my home village. earthcam.com/usa/newyork/corning/?cam=corning-ny You'll need to copy the URL and paste it to a new tab.

Often, after the spring floods, the swimming hole would end up in the section of the creek that flowed through our farm. Except during a polio epidemic, all the youngsters in the neighborhood had an open invitation to swim there as long as they brought an someone expert in lifesaving with them...

That would account for the Church tower not being visible in the photo.

I use one like Foggy's!

And as we've aged, we notice more sun damage to the skin on the side facing the open window.

It was more the configuration of the roads than the building architecture that clued me in.

'Elf and Safety would throw a fit about the child on the running board!

A fellow I dated briefly in the early '60s drove a Ford Console. Can't remember his name, but the car was memorable because it was an unusual model.

Not as far back as the photo, but early 1980s Oxford and Canterbury.

A selection of her home-baked temptations (well-preserved, of course).

Den looks extremely pleased!