Next time you meet a climate change denier…

Tell them we had a bloody tornado in Sydney today.

My home and work fine, Mr B decided to take shelter during his lunchbreak in a shopping centre that had a roof collapse, but it was comparatively minor.

Seriously, I am going to bite the kneecaps off the next politician that tells me coal is good for humanity.

Back to writing! SO CLOSE to finishing the current thing! Alas, five important things queued behind it …

Also …

If your brain needs a little break, run, don't walk, to the nearest Google window and play the Beethoven game! I used it as a test of sight reading skills, but there are little play buttons on each of the music snippets if you don't play anything or sing. Terrific fun and only takes a couple of minutes max.

If your brain wants to be tied up in knots for much, much longer, try the GCHQ Director's Christmas card. I do puzzles as part of my work, so could legitimately try and work my way through the steps during work hours -- the only joy at all this month. The first one is actually easy, just time consuming (SPOILER!! it's a simple logic puzzle, start by counting out the knowns listed for each set and fill in the 25s), part two has me stuck partfway through. 1 and 3 of Part two were super easy, 2 harder, and 4 I just cannot find the key to it, but am determined to avoid spoilers. You can find a link to the puzzle in this story http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/12045768/Stuck-on-the-GCHQ-puzzle-Let-us-help.html, which does include spoilers, but it has a link to the puzzle set before you get to them (you can sort of see the first one, but I'd already done that and have already spoiled you above, and look, it's hardly rocket science).

I've seen a screengrab of one of the later ones and I have absolutely no idea. I feel Christmas will be spent shouting in frustration ;-)

I DID IT!!

Last day at work for the year!

Magazines sent on time: all of them!

Stories nailed: lots!

Typos missed: very few!

Collleagues murdered: zero!

SUCCESS!!