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This week, none of that update stuff… BUT…

So this is Christmas… and what have we learned?

Looking back on the past newsletter offerings for 2025, I wondered, briefly, whether my mind had been broadened by researching and writing them each week.  Turns out I had forgotten 90% of it. But here are a few choice pearls to consider afresh, all from news events or general musings across 2025…

1. A 500kg chunk of space debris fell on a small Kenyan village in January. Likely a bit of rocket thruster, it was the size of a playground roundabout. 
    
2. ALL of the planets in our solar system literally lined up in February.
    
3. Kim Kardashian went ‘backless’ at a charity event, wearing a designer frock which exposed her spine right down to to the knicker line… and my first thought was: ‘Oh my — that must have been chilly.’
    
4. I came to terms with the fact that daffodils are killers, putting out a toxin through their roots to destroy botanical rivals… and coined the term ‘floracide’.
    
5. We worked on our two-word brands, after the Duchess of Sussex launched hers (As Ever) and mine was Oh Definitely, Howard’s was Smooth Landing and Cat’s was Spreadsheet, Anyone?
    
6. In late March the world stared up a glowing blue spiral in the sky… the ‘authorities’ explained it away as a SpaceX rocket depositing fuel in the atmosphere but at WG Towers we knew it was The Sign which foretold the rising up of our Snail Overlords
    
7. In May, saddened by the lack of a daft heritage sport (like cheese rolling and welly-wanging) in our fair county, WG Towers suggested The Hampshire Hog Parade (prettiest pig doesn’t get eaten) and Watercress Wassailing (singing at dawn, barefoot in the middle of a watercress bed) 
    
8. We also learned, in May,  that scientists, struggling to track endangered watervoles, were leaving glitter-filled food for them, so they could locate their poos by sparkle.
    
9. The wonderfully dubbed Blaise Metriweli became the first female boss of MI6 in June. Giving us all name envy and leaving me to seriously consider changing mine to Serenity Whistlemist.
    
10. At Ascot, news of Princess Anne’s sundress being not quite above the knee left us all reeling.
     
11. In July we considered putting masking tape on our skin and then spraying on fake tan to create the fashionable look of tan lines; a look which was all the rage. For about thirty seconds.
     
12. In September I enjoyed a hit of collective effervescence (a term coined by early 20th century French sociologist Emile Durkheim) when I took my daughters with me to see Coldplay, live.
     
13. In October we learned that bats aren’t the furry nocturnal equivalent of the Red Devils after all — after scientist discovered that they frequently collide with each other, mid air.
     
14. We also learned that the first example of fake news occurred around 1076… the Bayeux Tapestry, it turns out, is riddled with suspect ‘facts’.
     
15. I became an influencer! But not for my fake tan lines on Instagram. In the Top 20 Indie Legal LinkedInfluencers in TBD Marketing’s Q3 2025 report!  (Which is SO much sexier!)
     
16. I did a front crawl through cold custard in November… not literally but it felt like it as I swam up and down Andark Lake in aid of Warner Goodman’s Dip In Dip Out event, for Abbey’s Heroes. We raised over £8,000… and I’m still thawing out…
     
17. In December we discovered that a terrifying number of people still use ‘password’ as their password.

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