The other day I caught a Today program discussion on the idea of a ‘white Christmas’.

Interesting to note the notion of a white Christmas being a 19th century view – Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (& a very 20th century Bing Crosby didn’t help), that this is very much responsible for all the dreadful Christmas sentimentality. One of the contributors talked about the wonder of waking up to a snowy Christmas day which I have to admit would be wonderful. But I do often wonder about how ‘sentimental’ you’d get celebrating Christmas in Australia! And log fires on Christmas day – how many of us do that or even can with our neo-Georgian fake plastic chimneys.

And I recently got my first AV referendum mailshot urging me to support the Yes campaign. In a previous post I’ve criticised Britain’s adversarial political system and it’s inability to escape the 19th century and so will very much support the Yes campaign so that politics in Britain can get into the 20th century.

So that leaves us with neo-Georgian pastiche architecture. How do we go about getting the country’s house developers to design and build our homes fit for the 21st  century! Perhaps, if the Yes campaign wins, the Government should pass a law banning pastiche.