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December 2024
First of all, may
we wish you a very, very happy 2025!
This year, as last,
we sent very few paper Christmas cards.
We are getting more and more conscious of our impact on the
environment and the very high cost of postage demanded by the Royal
Mail. So this year we have donated
the savings we made by not buying postage or cards to the RNLI; thank you
to those who made that possible by accepting an e-card instead of
cardboard. There are some for whom
we have no email address, so if you are one of them we ask you to send us
an email address so that you can join the donation next year.
We spent Christmas
this year at Cotherstone – not far from Barnard
Castle here in County Durham. It’s
about an hour away but it was a lovely cottage and a delightful break
after the rigours of the latter part of the year.
Lo took a train
journey to Bristol to see David, her brother, and his wife. They had a lovely lunch together and
the trains were not too delayed.
It’s a while since she took a long train journey like this, but it
was much better than driving that far.
Otherwise, it’s
been a quiet month socially.
Although we’ve had a very great deal of wind. Storm Darragh
swept through the UK at the beginning of December. Thankfully for us, it hit the West of
the country far harder than us in the North East. The West, especially Wales, got hit
very hard indeed with lots of flooding and wind damage and, sadly, some
deaths too.
As usual we haven’t
done a review of the year – you can read our month-by-month blog by
clicking on the archive link below which will give you a much better
picture than a summary review.
So, best wishes to
you all and let’s see what 2025 can offer us all.
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