I’m wondering if Vienna’s Christmas lights are sponsored? While the world and its wife fought its way around the shops and rocked around the Christmas tree, MisterMac and I snuck off to the pictures and saw The Butler. Rather more Roots and less Downton Abbey than I was expecting, but still an excellent film. It was quite sobering to realise that those early years were in our lifetime and not as historical as we might like to think (I’m talking about the early years in the White House, BTW, and not the cotton fields of the 1920s!)