It has been rather a nice Christmas. I have been deep into one of my favourite stories - if not my very favourite story - A Christmas Carol. I have another blog comparing and reviewing different adaptations of it for from film and television down the years, and this year I decided to revive it and have a proper go at it.
I wanted to try and have a new review up every single day from the start of December until today, and I actually managed it - by the skin of my teeth at times, but I did manage it. I'll have another go next year, if I can find enough other versions to do it with!
But I've also written my own adaptation of the Carol this year. Just a fun, jokey one for the radio station where I work. The script could have done with one more draft, but for what it is it was just about good enough, and seems to have amused a few people. It was another collaboration between myself and my colleague Emma, eight years on from when we made The BBC Radio Norfolk Nativity together.
Just a fun little thing for Christmas. But these fun little things will always be the bits you remember above the day-to-day work.
Anyway, you can hear the whole thing here if you're interested. The Eastern Daily Press also published another feature of mine to promote it, which was kind of them.
I even came up with an idea for a sort-of sequel to the Carol this month, too. But obviously only a complete lunatic would ever contemplate such a thing, so that's probably best left alone.
