… because I won’t be saying it then. I’m taking some time off from the blog(s) and books to put my feet up more than usual and have a fun Christmas time. This fun will start on Monday, if not sooner, as on Monday, we’re going to the Christmas carols and sing-a-long at Scena. Dawn organises this most years and all money raised goes to the orphanage in Rhodes. That’s Monday, on Tuesday I will be peeling vegetables and making ‘pigs in blankets’ with Harry while Neil makes stuffing with Sam, and Jenine organises and makes a lot of noise. This has become a tradition over the last 22 years, 20 of which have been spent with the boys. Actually, as I said yesterday, I can’t really call them boys any longer, because they are men (or are just about to be), so, as it’s the time of year, I shall call them snowmen with no S. In other words, they are nowmen. Get it? How about this instead:
Christmas Day will be spent at their house, and Boxing Day at ours. Here, the usual form is I make a big pot of something with lots of fibre (lentil soup), and everyone brings leftovers, and we chill, veg, talk, laugh, eat, watch a film, and then the nowmen slip away to their real friends in the early evening having stayed a polite enough amount of time, and us adults watch another film and, probably, drink too much. Here’s another one:
For the past two years, we’ve all trotted off to Athens for New Year but not so this year. Money is the issue, and the sense of ‘done that, where next?’ This year, nowhere but home, but that’s fine too. I intend to start on my next project at some point over this festive break. I have a new novel mapped out, and an idea for another set of short stories set in the late 19th century, so we shall see what comes out. And another.
In fact, the images are coming thick and fast now, so I think I’ll leave you to get on with Christmas or simply a holiday if you don’t celebrate the mass itself, and wish you a pleasant time and hope all goes well for you. I’ll be back in the New Year, but keep an eye on the Symi Dream Facebook page. You never know what might turn up there. Meanwhile, here’s the last of what’s turning up here this year:
Have a happy Christmas and New Year!
