It’s becoming Annual
It has been a tough year. The toughest thing was losing my mother last month. She’d had a heart operation and was doing well, but then she got a Golden Staph infection. She would have been 88 next week. She wasn’t just my mother, she was my best friend.
I have adopted Mum’s beautiful cat, Fluff. She is settling in well and helps to fill another gap – Oscar went to pussy heaven recently. Ollie and Fluff are tolerating one other very well as long as they keep a respectful distance between them.
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We had a nice Christmas, even though it was our first without Mum. As usual, I went round early to see Hayley & Miles open their presents. They loved the gingerbread house I took them.
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Then I went with Relle to Lea & David’s place. This year we had a Secret Santa. Everyone took a gift that cost less than $20 and it had to be a game. It made Christmas shopping much easier. After we had opened our presents, we spent the afternoon & evening playing the games. It’s just as well there were no near neighbours, because we got very rowdy playing “Billionaire!”
It rained all the way home. We have had some heavy rain in past week. Its the best Christmas present of all, after the worst drought in 100 years.
