All Done

That's it for another year. The presents unwrapped, cooed over, and put away. The turkey eaten, demolished actually, and the last of the Christmas desserts sitting in the fridge waiting to be finished off. Now we are in that anticlimactic period between Christmas and New Year, when there isn't really anything to do but sit around. Well that is not strictly true, we will be taking my MIL to look at the lights tonight. There is a huge display of lights, arranged in pretty scenes, on the outskirts of town, so we will drive out there tonight. I hope that it will not be too long a day for her, she is getting slower with time. But it will be a nice evening none the less.

We were planning on having New Year with our neighbour, she invited herself over (LOL), but now has made other plans, so I am not sure what we will do. I am not a big an of New Year, I always thought it was overblown. As a kid I would sit home and watch TV on my own, as my parents were out partying, and my sister was out partying. That was fine by me. Sometimes I would even go to bed before midnight. I remember for many years watching the end of year Old Grey Whistle Test on the BBC. It was always a peaceful way to spend the evening as I recall. No pomp and circumstance, no false hopes to be shattered. I guess that was it more than anything else, the knowledge that you hoped things would be different, and they never were. Nothing changes on the 1st January, except the year! I have tried to make resolutions, but they are always forgotten by the 2nd, so what is the point? The only resolution I remember making was when I was 20 and resolved to give up smoking, it lasted a week. I think that was when I stopped making them. But that doesn't mean that people shouldn't look forward to the New Year, there is always the hope that it will bring about change. Not on a global scale of course, but even on a small, personal scale, change may come about if you want it to. And if everyone in the world resolved to stop disagreeing with other people, perhaps global change would occur. But then again, it is so unlikely as to not even be worth thinking about.

So on that cheerful note, with a warm glow in my heart, I wish you all a peaceful week while you wait for the celebrations that are upcoming this weekend. Whatever you decide to do, I hope you stay safe and warm. And of course happy.