The world from my window

A Happy New Year to you all!
Here's hoping that 2020 is peaceful, healthy, everything you hope for and full of blue sky bunting.
After twelve happy years, I've decided to give up this blog. I wanted to say a big thanks for all your support.

Looking around the house, the tree is up, the lights are twinkling and the cards are on display.
We've come off one friend's Christmas card list, and not because they're saving paper. It's a bid sad, really, but if it's a small victory to them and makes them feel better, than I'm okay with that....

Christmas is just a week away and that sounds about right as a cough and cold has just descended on me like the Angel Gabriel.
I've had the flu jab so it isn't a full-on thing, but it's annoying, nonetheless, and I hope it'll have burnt itself out by this time next week....

It's blowing a hooley out there.
The wind is lashing against the windows and the dogs are play fighting in front of the Aga before one of them goes too far and I have to break up the party.
It's recycling day today and the wind knows it, whipping up through the street into the square and down the alleyway from the church to present the village with a soggy mess of paper, cereal packets and plastic all along the side of the road, a twice...