Christmas with Raspberry Pi 5

These Final Word columns tend to be one of the last things we write for the magazine, meaning that even with print lead times the context of these columns is still fairly fresh.   As I’m writing this, I realise we don’t have one of my seasonal features in this issue for Christmas – my favourite winter holiday!   I’m Mr Mince Pie according to my friends, after all.

Lucy, MagPi Editor, firmly believes that Christmas can’t start until after Bonfire Night [that’s right –Ed], and while I understand and respect that, I’m full on Christmas mode the moment the clocks turn midnight on Halloween.   Which, if we were to write a Christmas projects feature, would have been roughly the deadline for it.   That’s weird, right?   I know TV shows tend to film their Christmas specials in July and It’s a Wonderful Life was shot during an unusually hot summer with everyone in big coats being pelted by newly-invented fake snow, but it’s still a little odd to be writing about turkey dinners and stockings on a rainy October evening.