2012 Almost Over ....

 

Hallo my dear bloggy friends. I must apologize for not getting round to visit you all recently, but the family are here until the 5th January, and I'm trying to be good and not spending all my time on the laptop!!

 

This evening, we are off to the Pantomime to see Dick Whittington. (Oh no you're not!! Oh yes we are!!).  First time I've been to a Pantomime for many a year, and I'm really looking forward to it.  I don't know if my bloggy friends in America (or elsewhere in the world) know what a Pantomime is, but it's great fun.  The leading man is usually played by a lady, there is a lot of slapping of thighs and wearing of  long, high boots, and shouts of "he's behind you"!!! The sort of thing that goes on in households all over England on a regular basis then.  Hee Hee!!

Over here in England, we had one of our wettest summers ever in 2012 and, judging by the amount of rain that is still pouring down, I suspect it could be the wettest year on record!

On a very wet day back in the summer of 2012, a cynical nation sat down to watch the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games, held here in London.  We didn't have much expectation, but as we started to watch the spectacle we had the realization that, hey, this was actually going to be quite good!  For the next 17 days, most of us were rooted to our tv screens and felt part of every victory by Team GB, and my goodness, didn't they do us proud!! 

What with that and the Queen's Diamond Jubiloee, it really was a year to remember over here in dear old England!

It was around about the same time that a wife said to her husband that she was fed up with the daily stresses of her job, and that she was going to quit and write a novel.  The husband's heart sank, as she had a pretty good job, with a very nice salary coming into the home.  She had just finished writing her first book, and it was selling just a few hundred copies a week. 

Since that time, the wife's trilogy of books has sold over 40 million copies worldwide and it has, in fact, become Amazon's all-time best seller.  The books are, of course, the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy.  which have become a publishing phenomenon.  Now why didn't I come up  with an idea like that?!

My wish for all of you as we approach the new year, is that you will be blessed in 2013 with good health,  happiness, joy, contentment, and peace in your hearts.  I hope that our friendship will continue and I look forward to sharing your lives in the days and months ahead.

"We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called “Opportunity” and its first chapter is New Year’s Day."

Edith L. Pierce.

 

 See you again in the new year!  Enjoy your New Years Eve celebrations whatever you might be doing, from partying, to just sitting cosily in your own homes, and I wish you everything that you would wish for yourselves.  Take care, and God bless.