Bon Noel and Happy New Year

To you all. To all of you.
I hope that Pére Noël brought you kindness, peace, hope, shelter, food, warmth, love.  It is a wonderful thing to be cared for, to have friends, to live and to love, to gift whatever we can.
Thank you all.

I can understand why an island is a wonderful place. However, I didn't do the Christmas Day picnic. I succumbed to a wonderful meal after a walk which was enough.  I wished my legs could have walked further along the sands...but it is quite hard work and one is never sure how far from base one has wandered!

I started this post on 25th but am publishing on New Year's Eve. I didn't have the mental energy or time to post using the ipad whilst on the island.  Since then, having returned home, it took me almost two days to prepare for a pretty table dinner for guests, then there was the clearing up, then there has been going out with friends over this festive season -  a sharp contrast to last year, when I continued to nurse my bunion, biceps tendonitis, woodburner and jigsaw!
I am sure you are glad for me that this year I am happy!
There will, I hope, be some postings about my island holiday and a few other pics.
Meanwhile I am trying to write a fact or fiction piece for a writing competition!