Thursday 1 January 2009

So it's here. HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Having gone to bed at 1 o'clock last night, I managed to sleep in until 9 thirty this morning. After a brief chat, my wife and I decided that a walk was in order before we could settle down to slobbing out for the rest of the day (well apart from my writing this!). We went to Ellesmere for one of our favourite walks. On the way there, we admired (for that is the only word for it) Jack Frost's handiwork. He operates a frozen earth policy does that chap, and the world is all the more beautiful for it when he does.

Back to work tomorrow (truth be told that I haven't really stopped - just doing the odd task here and there). Kids back to school on Monday, it's almost as if we haven't been off! I'm going to write a little on the nature of the Christmas Holidays over the next few days, but suffice to say (for now), I feel a real aching regret when this holiday is over that I just don't get after say, the summer holidays.