Feest Isolation Days –15 December
When I was a girl, Christmas was always a visit to my grandparents’ house. My Dad’s people. They had plenty to eat and a warm cosy house, but didn’t have a great deal of money. Their son, my Uncle Joe, always made sure that Christmas was a time when the kids in the family always had a pile of gifts. He was a man of few words, but many Christmas gifts! We used to open a pile of presents and each one was carefully chosen and exactly the sort of thing we would want. I remember my favourite dolls and their pretty dresses all came from the stack that would sit under the small Christmas tree emblazoned with my name. The gifts were always, but always, wrapped in newspaper. Uncle Joe was an ecologist before his time. My brother and sister and I would have to wait patiently until after lunch before we were allowed to open our treats. Our grandparents loved watching us open the packages almost as much as we loved doing so. I can’t remember when the tradition stopped, only that it was part of my childhood and who knows when that stopped? What are your childhood Christmas memories? They are warm treasures to cherish especially this year me thinks!
The new dishwasher is in! It took the two chaps all of about twenty minutes to install and they took the old one away. Not bad. From purchase to installation in three working days. Good companies are still out there and doing what they have always done brilliantly.
Londoners are now headed into Tier Three which means a hit for the hospitality and cultural sectors. But my oh my, don’t they need to do that! The crowd photographs just keep on reminding us all that some people left to their own devices are just not being sensible. The worry is that the stores are still open and the push to shop is not abating.
In America, the Electoral College has met and despite the Trump nonsense, Joe Biden will be declared the next President of the United States. There are wigglers in Congress who will have to validate the Electoral College Votes on the 6 January, but any shenanigans will be quickly stopped as the Democrats still hold the house. Any antics would need to pass through the house and that is not going to happen. Trump has given democracy a nose bleed and it is deeply worrying that there are so many who still seem to think that the election was rigged. Let’s hope Joe can pull things round a bit and the genie that was let out of the bottle with all the hate and vindictiveness can be somehow neutralised by some common decency. We shall watch what happens in the States over the next months. It isn’t going to be easy to roll back all the Trumpers.
A few laughs from the fellas at Mock the Week….unlikely things you’ll hear at Christmas…but where are the ladies and their gags?? Hmmm…
Enjoy!
Love
Kathy x