Good morning to everyone and I would like to wish you all a very HAPPY NEW YEAR.
With the seasons greeting over, here we are once again at the beginning of another year. Not only that, but the first new day of the second decade of the 21st Century. A Century that is not longer young, a century that has already had more than it’s fair share of doom and destruction.
In some ways I’m glad that the 09’s have gone. Today is certainly a good point to make a new start – last year was not been one of the Smudger families best. It would also be fair to say that it certainly hasn’t been the worst, but I , for one, will not miss it. The sad part is, that i, personally, have to continue with some of last years more painful consequences, but I guess that that particular issue has the potential to get somewhat worse before it has any chance of getting better – but a lot of the details of that specific “pain” have been documented already.
Normally I’m not a big person for New Years resolutions, but I do have one this year. After the various struggles with my back injury I have gain a little weight (into which read –TOO MUCH). I know why I gained weight, and I know now that I could have done so much more to have managed the situation better. But as they say, hind-sight is a wonderful thing.
So I have to deal with it now. I do have a goal. Within the next year or so, I have been ask to give my “adoptive” daughter away at her wedding and I WILL NOT be a Tele tubby for that.
As I type I can see that the cold and dark of last night, has given way to the crisp bite of new fallen snow. I know this will sound sad, but as the New Year turned the family and friends we were celebrating with looked out of the conservatory door to see the beginnings of the usual New Year Fireworks.
What was really nice was to see that someone had released, what I know as, Chinese Fire Lanterns. You could see them gently rise up into the air, but you could then understand why the air was so cold – there must have been a serious breeze. Once the lanterns got to certain height (one I wouldn’t even take a guess at even in daylight) they really began to move across the sky. Quick, but some how, still calm, gentle, peaceful.
That was nice.
A new powder coat of snow lays across the garden in almost pristine condition – almost. Across the garden I have just noticed (as I nip in and out of the kitchen to top up the coffee levels as I type), various small bird types that you don’t normally seem to see in our garden. Coal Tits and Blue Tits are both hopping from the bushes across to the bird table. I never normally notice them as they tend to get “bullied” off the table by the bigger, less “polite” birds. Starlings and even some muggles Racing Pigeons. But then some days, like today, you just get to see the smaller birds. Sparrows and even our own Robin.
The house is quiet, with everyone else still asleep after the lateness of last nights new year celebrations. The sun is out and the sky a clear blue. The air is crisp, and the snow fresh. It is a peaceful, calm, and somewhat beautiful way to start the New Year.
Have a nice, peaceful day – we all deserve one.
I’m sorry if this sounds a bit churlish, but what sort of weather do some people expect in the depths of winter.
