A very short story about a beautiful, lazy Sunday morning and the normality of it all.

This year’s face of winter at Wolf Kettler Photographer is … a human dormouse. Also season’s greetings, and Christmas and New Year closing schedule. In the New Year, let love warm your life, light brighten your mind and peace guide your way.

At the beginning of December, Nikolaus and Krampus visit if you are privileged enough to live in one of the countries that is on their tour schedule. Edging closer to the shortest day and the longest night of the year we celebrate the winter solstice, then Christmas and, finally, the last day of the outgoing year with all the hopes that we have for the infantile new year. All those winter celebrations have one aim in common: To defeat the dark time of the year. And today is the beginning of Saturnalia.

In Totnes, Devon, a homeless man dies in his sleep – in an alleyway. Are we all to blame? You know, all of us, you and me? And why, suddenly, we realise that the chancellor, George Osborne, is a time lord.

It may just be me but I rather suspect that a strange condition befalls the majority of photographers: At the sight of a camera bag, we instantly switch to a mode, in which we are utterly incapable of estimating sizes, volumes and weight. In my case, I want my camera luggage to be bigger on the inside than out and I want the packed bag to weigh less than the total of the items that live therein. And you know what? I might have actually found the solution.

“I fail to understand why it would not be obvious to all but the most stubborn extremists that you cannot cure the victims of a famine by starving them.” Photographs from the anti-austerity march and rally in London on 20 October 2012.

Do you feel that online security has gone completely over the top, all at the user’s burden? And why I am in favour of online appointment bookings at my GP practice.

A review of the Blurb photobook printing service for professional photographers, using the Adobe Lightroom 4 module under Windows 7 on a PC.

This instalment in my culinary series sees the marriage of Italian polenta to Bavarian quark to produce a delicious, vegetarian, reasonably low calorie and easy to make dish.

Continuing with my culinary posts, here is a recipe for an exotic dessert, which tastes delicious, takes only minutes to prepare and appears much more impressive than it actually is: A semifreddo with mango chutney, Kashmiri chilli and honey. I can only say spice up your summer evenings and look like a culinary god(des).