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Boxing Day
Posted Dec 26, 2004
A huge contrast to yesterday. Just The Boss and I cooking lunch together, eating 
watching the box and lying around and just chillin' out. I didn't even shave
. Last year this time she was lying in intensive care with tubes going in and out of every natural orifice and some unnatural ones put there by surgeons
. Can anyone wonder we are so happy this year.
Yesterday we were with The Son and family all day. The children were almost drowned in gifts as usual, far too much and The Boss and I were party to the over abundance. The Son cooked a splendid lunch, and after the four children put on a Christmas show. Each of them playing several parts and singing and dancing quite nicely. The Outlaws were there and were very good company, it was a real family time. At 2.oo p.m. we stayed our hands for a moment and lit a candle, explaining to the children that all over the world, in this time of peace and goodwill children were still dying because grown ups were still fighting. The candle did no good other than remind us all that the world can still be a terrible place.
I have daffodils in bloom in the garden, an amazing sight but much too early.
My bestest friend on hootoo took time out on Christmas day to e mail me
How great is that?
I went to midnight mass Christmas Eve. The church, candle lit, with a huge christmas tree and beautiful hangings on the otherwise bare walls looked wonderful. the hangings have been stitched over the years by local people. one of the best ones was stitched by a man.
When I came out at half past twelve I said Goodnight to The Lost Boy who is sleeping just by the Lych gate. We gave him yellow roses as it was Christmas and they were glowing softly in the light from the church windows. Such a peaceful place for him to be.
There are so many blessings in my life and this Christmas I am aware that things could be so very different.
Putting my thoughts down here for anyone to read is a strange thing to do.
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More Christmas Stuff
Posted Dec 16, 2004
It looks as though I may be treading the boards again after all these years. The theatre group my EGD is in are putting together a cast of older people to put on 'Dad's Army', next year. The Son has suggested he and I audition for it and we have been told that blokes are in such short supply that we are sure to get in. We all went to see the EDG in Cinderella last Saturday and after the show they asked for men to audition for Dad's Army so The Son volunteered us both. We go up for it after Christmas and the show goes on in the summer.
We are just about ready for The Day. We only have to get in the fresh stuff. All the pressies are wrapped and cards sent. I am so looking forward to it. I have ordered a huge bunch of roses from David Austin to be sent to The Boss next week to celebrate her first Christmas out of hospital for two years.
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We have been geting out and about such a lot. Every opportunity we have (and as we are retired that is quite a lot) and we go to different beaches and watch the sea, or out on the moors and enjoy the silence. We have good weather most days. It is fairly cold but we do not have much rain and I have to water my new roses nearly every day to keep them fitty
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I don't know if anyone else is reading my journal now, but if they are I wish them all a peaceful and joyous Christmas, whatever faith, or no faith they have.
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Christmas Stuff
Posted Dec 6, 2004
Well it has started This afternoon we went to the first of the Christmas plays. Our youngest G.S. was a shepherd in the school nativity. He wore sunglasses because he wanted to be a 
shepherd. At 6 he is very consious of his image It was a modern version of the play and the innkeepers wife had her hair in rollers and instead of telling the Holy family there was no room at the inn the innkeepers' first line was to tell them to 'Clear off' before he told them they could 'kip down in the stable' and ' Don't touch me chickens!'
This sad old bloke choked up when these little five and six year old children sang Away in a Manager
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My new roses seem to be alright in their temporary bed I am in the process of getting things together to make a Lasagna Bed for them.
The weather is wonderful, The Boss is well. The Son and his wife have an extension going on the house which is nearly finished and at the moment all is right with the world..
On Sunday I was up a tree in the back garden putting up Christmas lights, I had asked The Son to do it and he said he would, 'Sometime' so I did it myself and he turned up just as I finished
The Mousehole lights go on next week and I am going to try and photograph them for my friend(Theone who painted her grandchildren)
All my new O.U.stuff has arrived and I was not thrilled to discover my first exercise was to study and write about was memorials
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This Week
Posted Dec 3, 2004
We have now got use to the idea that The Boss is not ill. It strange, I can go out without leaving my mobile on all the time. I no longer have to get out of bed in the middle of the night to comfort her and bathe her and change the bedding. Each day she gets stronger and her medication has been cut down. we have been getting out and about in this lovely weather. The beaches are wonderful, usually empty and clean. The detrius left by the storms earlier on has all been cleared up and it is a pleasure to walk on the beach again.
We have been busy, The Boss with preparations for Christmas, me with the garden, my roses that Teuchter found for me have arrived, and loads of material for the next module of my O.U. course has arrived.
Next week we have several Christmas plays to go to to see our grandchildren perform.
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Back Again
Posted Nov 27, 2004
Well this didn't take long did it? I decided that writing this journal was a chore and I wouldn't bother for a while and yet here I am again.
The trouble is hootoo is a bit like a drug. I was determined to give it up as a daily fix but kept creeping back to play the odd game or two. Also a few messages were left about the journal and I thought perhaps I would do it occasionally instead of as a daily chore.
I also thought I would leave it a week or two before doing the journal, however I went out last night to see friends at Hayle and while driving home across the moor thought of a dear friend who said my little word pictures of Cornwall would be missed.
It was brought to mind by the simple beauty of the road. It was half light and the moor between Penzance and my village is dotted with a few farm houses. Many had lights on and against the black hills it looked wonderful. The road is serpentine and very hilly and I love the drive because in daylight there are wonderful views across the moors and at night it is so dark that it is exciting and mysterious to drive along and I thought my friend would love this, so here I am sharing a piece of my life for those that are interested.
The Boss and I were in Falmouth one day this week. She wanted something special to wear at a party we are going to I spent an hour in a dress shop saying things like 'yes that looks lovely' and then being told that it wasn't quite right. She found something she liked in the end but I honestly thought she looked good in the first thing she tried on, and the second, and the rest of the tops and skirts and dresses she discarded as not suitable until she found something she liked. There is something odd about women and clothes shops. When I want something I know before I go out what it is and just go and get it. Why can't the girls do that?
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