Good morning.. good morning.. it's great to stay out late, good morning.. good morning to YOU! Sincere apologies to the writer of 'Singing in the Rain'.
But it is MY Blogs Birthday! For a whole year I have, with regretfully I have to admit some weeks of being AWOL - absent without leave - written to amuse, astound, interest or just make YOU wish that YOU too had an African Grey Parrot in YOUR life.
But YOU certainly have other people in YOUR life.. wives, husbands, children, cats, dogs, fish, goats, rats.. the list is endless..
'Officially' SHE does have a human family, somewhere out there are two brothers, a nephew, two nieces, two great nephews and a great niece.. these people are directly related to HER, SHE also has a whole load of cousins, but I have never met any of these people and so, in reality, there is just the two of US.
SHE tried, for the longest time, to be a sister and an aunt.. but has given up.. when YOU are constantly met with indifference and only contacted when they need or want something.. SHE felt very, very lonely because of this and then one day.. SHE read something which made absolute sense to HER.. and SHE started on a journey.
SHE read "The definition of loneliness is loving to no avail". Read that, Dear Readers.. for it was the beginning of a new life for HER.
Christmas is a strange time of the year.. there is obscene amount of commercial hype.. obscene amount of money squandered on stuff which is shoddy and of appalling waste. Did YOU make anything to decorate YOUR home or was it bought? Are your Christmas Decorations family 'TREASURES' which are carefully wrapped up
and put away for next year?
For YOUR food, did YOU go to a supermarket - probably owned
by some non-tax paying conglomerate - or did YOU go to the local butcher OR farmer to ask what their Beef / Duck / Goose / Turkey would cost?
Did YOU, if YOU were in the position to do so, invite a single
person to share a meal with YOUR family? Do any voluntary
work?
Time to reflect, Dear Readers.. or are YOU caught up in the, seemingly, never ending drama of MORE.. the photographs of shoppers fighting over boxes of cosmetics in a London store was beyond OUR comprehension. I wonder if they will pay their Utility bills on time?
Speaking of which.. SHE turned OUR boiler off! It sound dire,
doesn't it? But SHE sat and thought of how HER life was like fifty
years ago when the family lived in an old house with no central heating, the different food, clothes. And adjusted OUR life
accordingly.
What was immediately very funny was that after a few days, our home started to become quite warm.. SHE thought that SHE was imagining it.. but then realised that a neighbour, who has a duplex flat, part of which is behind our flat and above us, had put their heating up because OUR heat was no longer warming theirs!!
Stews with spices, HOMEMADE GINGER SYRUP in hot water, thicker clothes, cotton or woollen tights and HOT water bottles!
Three of them.. it is quite a crowd in our bed, there is HER, ME on HER head, BIG hot water bottle at HER feet and there are two little ones that roam around, tucked into HER back or near to a hip.
But it is MY Blogs Birthday! For a whole year I have, with regretfully I have to admit some weeks of being AWOL - absent without leave - written to amuse, astound, interest or just make YOU wish that YOU too had an African Grey Parrot in YOUR life.
But YOU certainly have other people in YOUR life.. wives, husbands, children, cats, dogs, fish, goats, rats.. the list is endless..
'Officially' SHE does have a human family, somewhere out there are two brothers, a nephew, two nieces, two great nephews and a great niece.. these people are directly related to HER, SHE also has a whole load of cousins, but I have never met any of these people and so, in reality, there is just the two of US.
SHE tried, for the longest time, to be a sister and an aunt.. but has given up.. when YOU are constantly met with indifference and only contacted when they need or want something.. SHE felt very, very lonely because of this and then one day.. SHE read something which made absolute sense to HER.. and SHE started on a journey.
SHE read "The definition of loneliness is loving to no avail". Read that, Dear Readers.. for it was the beginning of a new life for HER.
Christmas is a strange time of the year.. there is obscene amount of commercial hype.. obscene amount of money squandered on stuff which is shoddy and of appalling waste. Did YOU make anything to decorate YOUR home or was it bought? Are your Christmas Decorations family 'TREASURES' which are carefully wrapped up
and put away for next year?
For YOUR food, did YOU go to a supermarket - probably owned
by some non-tax paying conglomerate - or did YOU go to the local butcher OR farmer to ask what their Beef / Duck / Goose / Turkey would cost?
Did YOU, if YOU were in the position to do so, invite a single
person to share a meal with YOUR family? Do any voluntary
work?
Time to reflect, Dear Readers.. or are YOU caught up in the, seemingly, never ending drama of MORE.. the photographs of shoppers fighting over boxes of cosmetics in a London store was beyond OUR comprehension. I wonder if they will pay their Utility bills on time?
Speaking of which.. SHE turned OUR boiler off! It sound dire,
doesn't it? But SHE sat and thought of how HER life was like fifty
years ago when the family lived in an old house with no central heating, the different food, clothes. And adjusted OUR life
accordingly.
What was immediately very funny was that after a few days, our home started to become quite warm.. SHE thought that SHE was imagining it.. but then realised that a neighbour, who has a duplex flat, part of which is behind our flat and above us, had put their heating up because OUR heat was no longer warming theirs!!
Stews with spices, HOMEMADE GINGER SYRUP in hot water, thicker clothes, cotton or woollen tights and HOT water bottles!
Three of them.. it is quite a crowd in our bed, there is HER, ME on HER head, BIG hot water bottle at HER feet and there are two little ones that roam around, tucked into HER back or near to a hip.
This is a lovely entry, GeeGee! Makes us all think about how Christmas has become so bloody (as you-Brits would say) AWFUL. My humongus family knows that I signed off years ago when we were in such dire straights that we really couldn't participate in what had already become the Feast of Manna. The grandiose music, singing of carols which can't be completely desecrated, and loving outreach is most satisfying. Family time is wonderful when there is feasting on homemade goodies, visiting, & society games. A flaw of famille nombreuse is that we tend to be clanny, not considering those who might like to "come in out of the cold." GeeGee, you've made a good point about that. We are guilty as charged. Alas!
ReplyDeleteDearest Joanna.. thank YOU for this.. this post has caused quite a few emails to be sent to HER and Peggy, WE are very sorry that norty Blogspot is so stupid with all their high-faluting rules on 'Comments'..
ReplyDeleteBlogspot is NOT the most user friendly in this new version.. who thought they were bettering it, not I!