Sunday 15 January 2012

The last few days...

...I've been listening to the tractors trundle up and along the lanes here...doing the tidying and clearing at this time of year.  Several large trees have been cut down and are now waiting to be next years firewood, or to have a more exotic end.  The ditch has been dredged (at last), and hedges trimmed.  Of course, this leaves the rest of us with mud over the road, tip toeing through the debris which never seems to be cleared.  It's been an energetic time for the quiet of January.

In the home we're getting closer to putting paint on walls.  Two years ago..some might remember, we moved a kitchen, leaving us with an old kitchen space.  Since then we haven't really dealt with it, but now we have pulled down a wall, filled an old doorway, laid a wooden floor, put panelling on one wall and built two cupboards for coats and such...tomorrow we put panelling on the other wall, which only leaves me to fill holes, paper and then paint...and make blinds...

Of course, then we move onto the next room...

Sunday 1 January 2012

2012...

...how can that be?  It was only days ago I was playing with the dolls house my Dad made for me...(I still have it), and only hours ago I was married and then had two wonderful sons...(I still have all those too), and then minutes ago weren't we worrying about how the millenium was going to crash into our lives...and now we look forward to this year with momentous happenings, a wedding...an olympics...and a jubilee.  The wedding is a family affair, the Olympic flame is going through a near village, and the Queen lives down the road.  Suddenly here is the centre of the universe and it's now...and 2012....

So happy new year...I wish you love and happiness...