Happy Christmas, all

As we're all pretty busy getting this close to Christmas, the Diary will fit into our usual practice of going into idle mode over the festive period. If any Wild Geese out there want to say a few words to their people at home, we'll post them.

Otherwise, your Editor wishes everybody a peaceful and happy Christmas, and thank you to all those who contributed to the Diary over the last year, whether as provider of news and pictures, or, indeed, as loyal and plentiful readers, without whom there would be no reason for doing it.