The shops are all shut now, there is hardly any traffic on the roads.

Everything is closing down for Christmas (except the churches).

Dateline London was still going earlier today (did the journalist from Le Monde really mean to describe Germany and its Eurozone alliances as the "Axis" powers? - as Abdul Bari Atwan said, this is back to the 1930s).

Probably there will be no posts on this blog until about Tuesday.