Twenty past nine and barely light. Ten days since the so-called "shortest day"; ten days since my carer and I stood in the window at a quarter to eight and watched the rooks fly over against an apricot sky; this morning at 9.20am I couldn't see to read the Times headline at that time. How contrary the weather is at the Solstice - all the more to just remind us who is in charge I suppose. One of the few things that so far we have been totally unable to regulate for our own ends. I have a photograph of the farmer and I standing in front of the Apollo spacecraft - we can go all the way to the moon and back but we can't press a button so that so-and-so can have perfect weather for their wedding day (just as well as farmer x may be desperate for rain that day to make the grass grow).
I have been absent a day or so - it is now New Year's Day and at last we have a beautiful day with clear blue sky and sunshine. And - it always feels like a complete new start.
Oh that it could be that for places like Ukraine, and places like the English Channel where migrants risk their lives daily crossing the bitterly cold sea to get to what they think is a better life and yet where here people queue at food banks to see them through Christmas. It is a strange old world and all I can do is to say Happy New Year to you all - please do keep reading me and sending me your comments. Now that I am 90 and housebound they keep me going. Thank you also for the super Christmas cards I received - they are still giving me pleasure as they wobble in their post-Christmas way. They will stay a few more days for me to enjoy until Thursday when I am having my carpet professionally cleaned.
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE.
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53 comments:
Happy New Year to you, Pat - and thank you for another year of being a great blogger and friend to many other bloggers, supporting us by reading and commenting, too.
Happy New Year Pat. I would also like to thank you for your continued blogging and the lovely feeling of friendship here amongst the comments.
Happy New Year to you from a chilly and rainy Isle of Man.
What would be a post here without the mention of cleaning! Great start to the new year blogging, a professional carpet clean. Happy New Year Weave and thanks for all your true friendship to me throughout last year.
Happy New Year! Prayers for good health because we need to ❤️🙏😊🥳☀️
Happy New Year to you, Pat and may 2023 be an improvement in every way for all mankind.
I love your blog and look forward to reading your wonderful posts this year.
- Rosemary x
Happy New Year to you from Virginia! We have been having wonderful apricot (just the right word!) skies at sunrise and sunset - our best view is toward the sunset and it has been remarkable for the last 2 weeks. Carpet cleaning sounds alluring after a season of tracked in leaves (our dog is like a dust mop, built low to the ground and bringing in debris).
Warmest regards,
Ceci
Thank you for all your writing. I used to catch up with your posts every now and then but now find I am looking forward to them daily.
Jackie M
Happy New Year and thank you for blogging as I enjoy reading them so much. Your blog and Going Gently are the first blogs I look for every day.
May this New Year bring you happiness and contentment and remember your blog and friendship means a lot to myself and to others Pat. xxx
Happy New Year Pat. Thank you for your blog. I know the area where you live and enjoy your descriptions and reminiscences. Stay well.
Jean xx
Happy New Year, Weave. I love your posts. They make me appreciate everything much more. 2022, on the whole, was not too good was it?
May 2023 find you happy, healthy, and surrounded by both family and friends! Look for the good in all things and then share it with as many as you can!
Hugs from S. Colorado ❤
Thank you for your return to health and blogging. I agree with all the other folks wishes, and add my own that we can all continue to be hear for each other...a supportive virtual group of friends. Barb R in North Carolina
Happy New Year, Pat! Thanks for blogging! Wishing you good health and happy times in 2023!
Happy New Years Pat! Much love from Texas! Debs
Happy new year.
Happy New Year to you.May it be happy and healthy.love Barbarax
Happy New Year from Monrovia,Indiana
Happy New Year from Ontario, Canada! -Jenn
Adding my good wishes for your continued health and ability to write. Thank you for adding your sane voice to my days. I look forward to every post. All the best from West Virginia.
Best wishes for good health and the strength and fight to keep on going. My dad turned 90 this past December and is in assisted living. I admire his determination to fight to get whatever he can, out of each and every day. I think I complain about aches and pains more than he does and he's 21 years older than me. I look forward to your blog and I, like many others, worry when we don't hear from you. You've had your bumps this past year and I hope this year will be a smoother ride. Ranee (USA)
Happy New Year, Weaver dear (aka Pat)!
May 2023 be filled with peace, good health & laughter.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts, memories, stories, and wisdom with us here in blogland.
You mean so very, very much to so very, very many!
Very Happy New Year to you Weave.
We are wishing that it will be happy and healthy
for you as you deserve it. xx
Wendy & Tom (Wales)
And a Happy New Year to you!
I add my New Year's greeting and good wishes for you to the many you've already had, Pat!
It's a joy to read your most interesting blog and I thank you for including us!
In her elder years, my mother put her Christmas cards into a box that was kept on her breakfast table so she could look at the cheerful cards and remember the person who had signed each one. She said looking at the cards again and again was like a little visit with those friends.
Hugs!
Happy New Year, Pat. May 2023 be kinder to us all. --Elise
Happy New Year 🎊 X
Happy New Year to you Weaver. Your day sounds very dark and gloomy. We don’t experience such extremes of light here in the middle of New Zealand, and of course it’s mid summer for us now, so it’s very bright and the days are long. I remember visiting England in winter and being astonished at night falling at 4pm.
I hope this year sees you in good health, and continued good spirits. You are an inspiration to us mere 70 year olds, and certainly cause me to think with your stimulating blogs.
Thank you and may you keep going, just as long as you are able.
I woke up to sunshine this morning to welcome January. However, it soon became cloudy but no rain today. Wishing you a Happy and Healthy New Year, and twelve more months of interesting blog posts to keep us interested and enlightened. Thank you for each one of them.
Happy New Year Pat. Wishing you all the best for 2023. It's a lovely clear, sunny day today at 50 degrees F. Still no snow but now a possibility of something this Friday.
Happy 2023...as I prepare for the new year, working on my budget, getting my journal ready...my planner, my word for the year...I reflect. I wonder what I have ever done (if anything) to deserve all of my blessings. Your blog is fantastic...so upbeat...so inspiring...no whining...I enjoy it so much. Thank you. Good luck this year...best wishes for good health and prayers.
Wishing you the best year possible - just keep blogging, keep reading, keep moving gently and stay well
Happy New Year Weave. Take care of yourself - you are needed in Blogland!
Happy New Year from Winnipeg, Take care, I always read your blog, Jean in Winnipeg
I like your idea about starting anew. It's so simple that it's stupid. Yes, if only the Ukraine situation could start over on a plan that would bring peace. Keep on blogging. I enjoy your daily reports and look at life.
Happy New year!
Adding to the best wishes and warm sentiments expressed above. Looking forward to your 2023 posts. - Pam, Australia.
Happy New Year. All the best wishes to you.
Linda from Alabama
Happy New Year Pat! Looking forward to reading your wonderful blog again this year.
Cheers, Karen in Queensland, Australia.
Happy New Year Pat.
Keep blogging - yours is the blog I always turn to first. x
Happy new year, Weaver! Olivia in the PNW in the US
Happy new year Weave..it will be the beginning of February...the feast of St Brigid, or the Celtic festival at that time..when the sheeps' milk begins to come in, ready for the lambs.
Happy New Year!
Hello Weave. We must remind ourselves to be careful what we wish for. Here in northern California USA we prayed for rain and now we're receiving it in buckets! Why, oh why, can't there be a happy medium? Oh, and "whomever" decided to throw in a couple of earthquakes!
Please don't ever feel pressured to write but I do enjoy your posts even if you write about nothing more than daily life. What else is there?
Happy New Year, dear lady!
A very happy New Year to you as well. I love your posts. My favorite ones are your reminiscing ones. How different your life was from my own. We have a nice community here and it is an interesting thing to think we would have never found each other were it not for the mysteries of the internet.
A slightly belated Happy New Year to you. It'll be a very strange year indeed if we try to arrange weather to suit the farmers.
Happy New Year Weaver of Grass ! Your blog is one of the treasures the internet grants. I wish you the best of health from Lower Brittany.
Maguy
A very happy new year to you too. Thank you. xx
A Happy New Year to you, I love reading your blog, always interesting and entertaining xx
So good to hear from you Pat...I'm starting this new year with the "lurgy"...so it can only get better!!! Much love...G x
Happy New Year to you and all the family, Pat! Sending fond wishes from Dundee
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