Not being one for a trad tree, each year my yule tide task is to make something Christmas-esque. And what more evocative of home and hearth, than dancing flames ? Of course for us Southern Hemisphereans, where Xmas is bought to you by Sweat & Swelter, a hale fire ( NB that was not a conscious pun) is hardly to be borne ( ditto) pero pero pero ( but but but) this fake Fire with its sly reference to the conflagration of consumerism, is just right. Warming the cockles but not the skin, visually alluring but not requiring attention or more than a small amount of sacrificial forest.

Merry Christmas !