[Jerome Betts]

The last Lighten Up Online of the year is now up, with the esteemed participation of two more than a baker’s dozen of Sphereans, namely, Melissa Balmain Jerome Betts, Terese Coe, Max Gutmann, A.M. Juster, Jean L. Kreiling, Susan McLean, and Martin Parker, together with new members Damian Balassone, Marshall Begel, Bruce Bennett, Julia Griffin, Conor Kelly, Bruce McGuffin and Samantha Pious.
Among their topics are absence of mind, bookish romance, carols, cauliflowers, Chopin, drunken uncles, French cheese, fruit pie, editorial rejection, hatchery trout, Joan Hunter-Dunn, New Year Honours, odd fish, poison ivy, Q-Tips, Supermarket Rose, tea and cakes, wandering whistling ducks and a well-known figure in a red suit, along with a wealth of wit and wisdom from their unspherical co-contributors. https://www.lightenup-online.co.uk/i...-december-2023