BELATED NEW YEAR GREETINGS

First many thanks to all of you who have been leaving comments, sending emails and cards expressing good wishes and your concerns during my enforced non-computer weeks. I make no promises to catch up with all your blogs but will do my best to drop by now and again and do the odd post when I can. Many of the emotional, computer and financial issues from last year are overflowing into this year but things will improve given time I know....there are many in a worse position than I.

Christmas went well.....far better than I had expected. Steve, Lynn and Max (the dog) came for a weekend before Christmas.....we had a great time....they laden me with goodies!......sadly I didn't take many photos except this one of a contented Max...

Leanne and Co also spent a weekend here prior to Christmas. I also stayed a night with them when we went to see Mel singing in the choir at Colchester Castle......it was fabulous!!!

I went to Manda and Co's on Christmas Day and all was jolly and festive........plenty of food and wine! Chris's Mum was there too...... and Nicole enjoyed having her two Grandma's with her. We had so much fun playing with Nicole's new Wii.............great exercise too! We've also spent many fun hours playing Jenga....................it's addictiveThe lady in the pink stripes is my dear neighbour and friend Sue........she, Manda, Chris, Nicole and I have managed 34 moves without toppling the tower....our own personal record!!!

New Year's Eve I spent with my Father and Step-mother in Kent. My sister drove down from Scotland and picked me up......it's been a few years since my Father saw both his daughter's at the same time!...that's my younger sister in the top photos with our father.One thing I miss about living in Cornard is not being beside the sea.....................

I guess it's my alter-ego coming out in me.....

We've had no snow here....a few cold days but reasonably mild..........I've taken a few sky photos at home but nothing spectacular.......I was hoping I'd get a good sunrise in Kent but it was too cloudy. I've put away all the Christmas Decorations now...........the shelves look quite bear without all this....(the first photo in the collage is Mel dressed up in some of my spare tinsel)So with sweet memories of a Christmas past......................


it's time to move forward into 2008.................................the first daffodil is out in the garden...almost to the day that it was last year!Wishing health, weath and happiness to you all and peace to the World

"Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by."
~Og Mandino~