Goes to Lord Bonkers, who describes Eeyore as an anhedonic donkey, which is an extremely pleasing phrase.

Wikipedia defines anhedonia as “the inability to experience pleasure from activities formerly found enjoyable” and it is a symptom of depression. Then Wikipedia gets sidetracked by a description of ejaculatory anhedonia, which nearly led me to not linking at all, but then the Standards Board holds no fear for me now.

Props also for Jonathan’s Week of the Week this week.

The Google Science Fair is now open.

Taking a few minutes out of my day to read Twitter, I notice on Lovefilm a story that Disney have signed Jennifer Garner to play a young Miss Marple in a prequel film.

Absurd.

I mean, does this woman look like Miss Marple to you?

New programme on Channel 4.

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I find Toothpaste for Dinner a little patchy. Some of their stuff is so good I’ve bought it on t-shirts. But it goes for weeks and leaves me cold.

In recent days, however, I have chortled greatly at the two following cartoons:

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There. I haven’t been able to say that for ages, but today the sun came out, and partly because of that, and partly not, I have had a good day.

I didn’t massively oversleep. I didn’t quite get up when I planned, but baby-steps, eh?

I made significant inroads into the Undelivered Leaflet Mountain. I had almost forgotten that it can be really enjoyable to go out on a sunny morning and get leaflets out.

I got a lot done. I reported some problems to the Council and I got to talk to some residents on my way around. I had a nice healthy lunch and got back on the trail.

Then this evening I cooked a really nice meal – Nigella’s meatballs and Gordon’s chocolate fondants. There was enough spare to feed the freezer as well and enough time whilst cooking to clear down the work surfaces and not the leave the kitchen looking like a minor disaster had struck.

I got to eat with my husband for a change, which was nice, and we watched the latest Episodes together, which still makes us laugh, even if Twitter is full of people who hate it.

Then out to the Print Cave to begin undoing the dent I made in the leaflet mountain earlier, then home.

Of course, it wasn’t a perfect day. I didn’t get my 5-a-day, even if I did get my NHS recommended exercise. I couldn’t park outside my house when I got home far too late. And despite it being closer to midnight than I’d like I still can’t go to bed until I’ve got a few more things done. And tomorrow is another whole question.

But still. Today was nice.

Each year, I send Christmas cards. This year, I got them out later than ever before – so late indeed that they were sent in January, barely even before Twelfth Night.

For once, I didn’t blog the newsletter. This is because in telling my friends and family I’d been on Come Dine With Me, I used photos that were embargoed until after the show aired.

So now, even later, and for my own memories and archives as much as for the edification of any other readers, here is a copy of my 2010 Christmas “nilesletter”.

And Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without my annual caution: if you are sending Christmas cards, please put your name and address on the outside of the card, just in case one of your nearest and dearest has carked it since you last heard from them.

I had planned to blog loads on the subject of Come Dine With Me during the week it was on TV, but this week has been too hectic, and I have felt too tired to get much out.

Feeling tired no longer seems to be linked to how much I have done.

Anyhoo. During the week, I took a few cameraphone pictures and I was under strict instructions not to publish them or share them until after the show had aired. They wanted to keep costumes, and everything else as secret as possible until after the TV programmes had actually been broadcast. In particular, we were told not to let anyone know who had won / lost. The threat they had over us was that the contract we signed meant they could charge us the presumably significant costs of recording, if what we revealed meant that it was no longer possible for them to sell the show to Channel 4.

Those pics are now all here in a Flickr group.

I am sure I will find the energy to write about them some time soon.

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I love the way his tail beats time with the metronome.