🎄 FIELD GUIDE 37: So here it is, Mary, Christmas
Welcome to FURTHER AFIELD, our monthly foray outside FFOREST for stories and ideas we think you’ll love.
On Wednesday evening, I looked in a gift shop window to see this house observing something truly horrifying flanked by neighbours who are shocked but not directly affected.
Jumbo Supermarket in the Netherlands is reducing loneliness with chat checkout lanes where you are welcome to take as much time as you like chatting with the till operator and the people in the queue.
Keaton Patti has trained a bot to write screenplays. Here’s the first page of the bot’s Hallmark Christmas movie.
This song says Christmas to me more than any other (followed closely by Waitresses’ Christmas Wrapping). I love this Mannheim Steamroller version. (Spotify).
I hope you have the merriest of Christmases and the happiest whatever else/instead you are celebrating. I’ll be back in your inbox with TREE 507 on 9 January 2023.
Grow slowly
Jeff
This hallmark movie is probably the funniest thing I've read all month and I would read 300 pages of this screenplay.