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Dinosaurs don’t look up
Is history repeating itself?
Courtesy of Imperial College, London
There are a lot worse places to be on Christmas Eve than Chamonix. Our children would have left, happy after a week’s skiing in near perfect conditions, but Monsieur Macron had had other ideas, for health reasons of course.
After spectating an avant-garde procession through Chamonix town and hanging around in a park with makeshift stage and disco lights waiting for Father Christmas, who was great and spoke French like a true Frenchman, amazing, we retired to warm-up and get out of the rain.
(Any skiers reading this will already know, there is nothing much worse in a ski resort than rain. Only no snow). Thank goodness there was beaucoup de neige and it was Christmas.
Netflix
All credit to Netflix. Unlike Amazon Prime, we were able to use our login details and access our account which meant the premier of Don’t Look Up , starring Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio was available to watch at no extra cost. Amazon insisted on a more Gallic view, adding cost to everything that looked vaguely Christmassy and watchable, despite being logged into our UK account.
