Ho Ho #@!*%# Ho! Bah, hunmbug and all that...

I've neglected you all lately.  But it's insane at this time of the year.  The other morning I had to go to the mall.  I was up there by 8.30, got a park in the cool covered carpark, whizzed around and did what I had to and got out  of there by 9.30.  By then, not a car park was to be found and the mall was packed.  It was hot and I was pleased to get home, turn the air con on and relax for the rest of the day.  I only have to brave the mall once more and then I'm finished!  Bliss...

I've posted all but one parcel overseas.  The cost of postage is astronomical.  I paid $74 to send a 2 kg parcel to my grandson in Holland.  What was inside didn't even come to that much!  I think next Christmas, I''ll just deposit some money in his bank account.  Altthough he does love getting the Australian sweets and biscuits, etc that he can't get in Holland...so maybe I'll just keep posting stuff...sigh.

My mum is 90 on Tuesday.  She and Harold are away for their weekend at the moment.  I do hope the weather is fine for them as New Zealand can be pretty unpredictable.  I posted her a DVD of Il Divo in Barcelona for her birthday, which I hope she will enjoy.  Those guys have beautiful voices.
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My writers' group had our Christmas dinner on Wednesday night.  We had lovely food, wonderful service and very nice champagne.  There was also good conversation including lots of witty repartee.  Well, after a couple of glasses of champers, we thought we were very witty!

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Next week, Jacqui and David are having afternoon drinks and nibblies at their place on the Sunday and on the Friday Jane and I will be going to a cocktail party put on by the practice she works for and whom I used to work for.  It's an orthopaedic group and I was one of the original staff members when the practice started.  It will be lovely to see "The Boys", as we called the surgeons, once again.

It has been rather warm here...up to 40 C, and being an hour from the coast, we don't get the afternoon sea breezes...I bless the person who invented air conditioning.

 In my finery before heading out to our writer's group dinner.  I had this taken before I put my flashing Christmas earrings in.  Very cheap and trashy they are,  but delightfully so.

Okay, that's my lot for now.   I hope the silly season isn't driving you too nuts.  I was reading this through...it's a bit disjointed but that's how I feel at the moment.  Oh dear, too bad, never mind...