I’m back at home and more or less recombobulated after a very eventful week.

Christmas in Windsor was pleasant, but very peopley — three generations of SIL’s family, including Nephew 1 and Niece 2 and their children. Niece 2 has three sons who are only now emerging from the feral stage of young childhood, and their father — nice guy, but foolish — gave the middle one a pair of remarkably realistic handcuffs for Christmas. What could possibly go wrong? Of course, it had to happen: Nephew 1’s younger daughter cuffed and shut in a closet where she shrieked the house down.

SIL tried to give her elder granddaughter (17 years old) a lovely hand-knit Aran sweater that the kid obviously would not be seen in dead at a dog-fight. So now I am the proud recipient of a lovely hand-knit Aran sweater … Maybe the kid will be willing to inherit it when she’s out of high school and less influenced by TikTok.

The four boxes of Wedgwood now belong to Nephew 1, and are presumably on their way to Ottawa. I packed them into the boot of his car myself.

Reading over previous posts in this thread, I noted some discussion of air fryers. I am toying with the notion of acquiring one, especially for cooking chicken and fish. Does anyone have advice or warnings to offer before I spend any money?