Wishing all our friends a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Like many people, we are no longer sending Christmas Cards, in favour of donating the money to charity instead. You have to follow our posts here for all our news through the year.

So we thought we’d end 2023 then, with these pictures from our ‘Museum’ anniversary year!

As regular readers know, Emma and I decide to dump the traditional first 24 wedding anniversaries – the rubbish ones like ‘paper’ and ‘glue’ which come before the serious bling – in favour of our own list of things we actually like.

So we wrote down 12 each and randomly assigned them into the 24 draws of a repurposed advent calendar, to be opened at the start of each year. This year ‘Musuem’ came out of the draw, setting us up for an exciting 12 month long odyssey of delights.

By row, from top left:

Art in Nature (Gloucester); Classic Boat Museum (Isle of Wight); Medieval Museum (Bologna).

Maritime Museum (Isle of Wight); Mini Harp Museum (Bruges); National Waterways Museum (Gloucester); Musea Sculpta (Bruges).

Enzo Ferrari Museum (Modena); Sain FFagan (Cardiff); Friet Museum (Bruges); The Wilson Art Gallery (Cheltenham).

The Vagina Museum (London); Chocolate Museum (Bruges); Gelato University and Museum (Bologna), The Museum of Lamps (Bruges).

Palazzo Poggi (Bologna); Torture Museum (Bruges); The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & UnNatural History (London); Modern Art Museum (Bologna).