22nd December 2012
How others see you is not important, how you see yourself
means everything!
Good morning from Wonderful Wales, well I wasn’t going to
blog whilst away, but in all honestly I enjoy it, it’s a bit like keeping a
diary and it helps me process the randomness of my mind. Plus there’s never anyone up at 5am so what
else is there to do when it’s pitch black outside, although I will be reading
more this week.
The drive down was smooth, no traffic at all, that’s the
beauty of Pembrokeshire, you don’t have to go anywhere near the M6! We spent two hours of the journey listening
to Micky Flanagan ‘the out out’ tour, very, very funny, a gift from a
fabulously sparkly new friend I’ve made this year. It was wonderful to hear mom laughing so loud
for so long, absolutely wonderful.
The cottage (well house) is beautiful, they’ve put up a huge
real Christmas tree for us, we arrived first and hid all the presents before
they arrived with the kids, and I did laugh because one of the first things Jen
said was, “I’ve found a secret cupboard”, I’m like, “erm no you haven’t, we’re
not allowed to go under the stairs, it’s where the owner keeps all their things
so it’s private, plus there’s only the hoover and empty boxes under there”. Kids ay, they miss nothing do they.
There’s no phone signal at all even if I go for a walk, so a
week without a phone will do me the world of good, we have got wi-fi but that
doesn’t always seem to work. I’m going
to enjoy reading and spending time with real people rather than virtual ones.
Mom bagged herself the best room as soon as we arrived, and
we all agreed it’s not worth tackling her because as old and frail as she may
be, she’d tackle any of us to the floor in a scrum ;-)
Our Tesco delivery came about half eight last night and we
struggled to get it all in the fridge, we’ve got the veggies in the cold
porch! So I’m thinking bring the Sunday
dinner forward to Saturday and that’ll make some room, it’s our holiday we can
do what we like. We didn’t get our order
completely correct, I suppose that’s what happens when you put Lynne in charge
of the laptop and hand her a pint of Guinness!
We somehow ended up with one onion rather than a bag of them, and two
massive punnets of tomatoes – not quite sure what meal she’s intending to use
them with ;-) But one thing I know for
sure, we won’t starve – there is so much to go at, plus there’s only a Chinese takeaway
at the top of the road, about a 5-10 minute walk max = result! Although having said that I’ve never had a
descent Chinese in Wales ever, we really are spoilt in the midlands for
takeaways, we have some of the best in the country I reckon.
This time of year can be really emotional for so many, driving
down yesterday we were listening to Radio 2 (I know, it’s sad, I’ve reached
that age where Radio 1 annoys me!) and they were reading out message for loved
ones to the troops in Afghanistan – it was very moving, they also had some talk
to each other, you could hear the love.
I’m very lucky I’m getting to spend Christmas with those I hold dear and
for that I am very grateful. To those of
you that have lost loved ones, a few of you have contacted me, don’t dwell and
live in the past it’ll lead to depression, don’t worry and fret about the
future it’ll cause anxiety – focus on the now and LIVE, it’s good to have
wonderful memories but don’t let them stop you making new ones.
Have a fabulous weekend, make new memories xxx
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