What now?

I guess today is as good a time as any to formally bring this blog to a close.
The last day of the year is for taking stock of what has gone by and planning for the future.
This time last year I was still alone. Still trying to make sense of a world that had spun out of control. Still asking the question, “What now?”....

For almost as long as I have been writing this blog, I have talked about the little village in the hills in which we made our home and how much it means to me.
This area is of negligible economic significance.
There is a small amount of light industry down in the Severn valley. Once you rise into the upland areas there are sheep and very little else....

It was R's birthday on Sunday. He would have been 49.
That's no age to be absent from the party, is it?
It is still difficult to fully take in the fact that he has gone. Even though to the outside world I think I appear pretty together these days, I still walk around with that massive R-shaped hole in my heart....

It is a real struggle to keep up with everything at this time of year.
Clients have their end of year budget to use up, so are sending me work like there's no tomorrow. This is also a busy time for me family-wise, with a whole spate of birthdays coming in quick succession. The Facebook experiment has been declared an Official...