I hope your Christmas is a special one, with your grandson especially but I know Pete will be beside you all the time.
New Year's Eve has always been a bit of a downer for me and the jollity so often seems feigned. I'll be tucked up in bed and wishing Jules Holland would just go to someone else's party once in a while!
it is kind of your friends to ask you though and I hope it is a worthy of your smile.
Love to you at this difficult time. xxx
With you on New Year's Eve. I've always hated it. Probably because I was a single mum until dau was 9, so was always alone. Except one New Year's Eve I was with her real dad, and that was lovely. But since then, I've hated it. I usually ignore it - and thankfully, being in the country, I don't hear the fuss.
Remember the big hoo-haa about the Millenium Bug? How all the computers were going to break down at midnight on NYE and all the lights would go out, and there would be basically destruction all around, and the end of the world as we knew it? Or, TEOTWAWKI as it went around at the time! That New Year's Eve, dau, who was mid-teens at the time, insisted I stay up to see a new Millenium in. As midnight approached I happened to look out our kitchen window - from where I normally can see lights of various farms, the local farmery-supply place security lights, and in the distance, across the bay, the lights of the town where dau now lives. But that night - total darkness!!
Not so much as a pinprick of light to be seen anywhere!! Dau looked at me, shocked, and said "It can't be, can it? Surely, all that hysteria in the newspapers couldn't have been true!" - but then both of us realised that
our lights were on! Madly curious, we phoned friends in the town across the bay to say Happy New Year - and ask if their lights were on! They were. All that had happened was that a bank of very thick fog had moved in in the valley around our house - thick enough that not a single light penetrated it!
I told dau that I could just imagine God up there rolling around laughing at his joke!
