Wonderful Christmas in the sunshine in the south of France. Made plenty of notes for work so hopefully get some of these ideas down on paper over the next week. Plenty of reading, mainly reading Panorama, a book on Gerhard Richter, one of the great modern contemporary painters, his methods, techniques, subjects, really inspiring. Also read John Berger's Ways of Seeing, also interesting. Had a look at Roland Barther's Camera Lucida, couldn't get into it, I'll try again, the new biography of Charles Dickens, great to get a chance to read so much.