Rachel, Owen and Kathryn

How many of the Little family can you fit onto a two-seater sofa? More than you can capture in a selfie without a wide-angle lens - the hint of black fur at the edge of the frame is Tsi-Tsa, who didn't want to be excluded from the post-Christmas huddle.

Katy is feeling very inspired at the moment - two new jokes this week. What do you call a person with a genie, who puts out fires? An exting -wisher! What do one-eyed kids read to get clever? An en-cyclops-pedia!

The letter has been written. I think I can spot a Pokémon theme emerging for Christmas 2015.

July 2015 in Chorlton.

Dodgy video of a dodgy choir ... lots of noises off (including a very vocal baby) but since it was made by the doting father of the alto standing next to me, it happens to feature lots of close-ups of yours truly as well! I'm doing the solo intro/outro to I dreamed a dream . (There's a spoken introduction you might want to skip over.) Library summer concert 2015 - Les Miserables medley