Well, hello 2025, and Happy New Year to anyone reading this. I have very little idea who that might be, other than a few kind commenters, but according to Google there are quite a few others hanging around on the sidelines. I myself do sometimes read blogs that I don't comment on, though not often. So hello anyway.
My brother and sister-in-law went down south again yesterday, so we've just been gently pottering about, putting things back in their usual places, washing sheets, watching programmes that we've recorded, and so on. Also going for walks, such as this one yesterday, along the path beside the golf course. It's funny how hills always look much smaller in photos than they do to the eye. These are the Pentlands, and you can't see, but they're covered in snow.
It was a beautiful day yesterday, and also today, but rather chilly. Not many people were on the path.
But the light was beautiful.
At our ages, 74 and 76, it's impossible not to wonder from time to time how many more New Years we'll see. My brother is now 77, and though he's very fit as far as he knows - well, none of us does know for whom the bell will toll (next).
Still, I always remember Charles Lamb in The Essays of Elia, writing, "I survive, a jolly candidate for 1821", and that seems a good attitude. We're fine. We hope to continue thus for a while. Meanwhile I simply must start another quilt.
I've been writing this blog for nearly 19 years. I'm slightly sad that there's no easy way (is there?) to print it out economically and concisely, since it's a record of these years. I've seen companies that will do it as a fancy book, with one page per entry or whatever, and all the photos, at vast expense. This would take up more pages than I'd like to leave for my descendants to deal with.
Anyway, on with 2025.
I've read that walking is the sixth vital sign so yours should be healthy with all the walking you do. Pottering about the house is one of my favorite things to do and I did plenty of that today as well.
ReplyDeleteWalking and fresh air are very important, not just to the health but to the attitude. I don't want to lose my blog and the 20 years of my life that it chronicles but part of me thinks it would be best for it to eventually disappear.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photographs! I can almost breathe that clean, fresh air - the cold seems to slice through the lungs in the winter
ReplyDeleteGoodness, the frost is still visible! That would be nippy! I should walk more - I know it's so good for me, but unfortunately we live at the very top of a quite steep hill. I can walk down it, but I know I can't manage the return. I have a lung condition which is under control but does limit me. I've been very slack recently about taking the car somewhere flat and walking from there. Memo to self : Must Do Better! We're supposed to be in the height of summer but we're having ghastly weather. The Inter-island ferry is being cancelled again because of strong swells and last week it was gales! Everywhere is damp and grey, or worse. Weather for sitting inside and reading, not getting out amongst Nature. I went to church this morning wearing a full length winter puffer jacket! That is ridiculous!!
ReplyDeleteThank you for your interesting blogs. Your photos are so enjoyable.
I don't know if you ever see my replies, Virginia, but I'm intrigued by the inter-island ferries. Are these between North and South Islands?
DeleteYes - it’s only a three hour trip but the strait can be ROUGH …the ferry is a big multiple storey car/bus number but I’ve been on it when waves have crashed over the top …. Much vomiting
DeleteOh and do the blog books!!! Yes expensive but you don’t have to do a day a page or make the photos too big … and it’s so worth it to have the physical book! I can get about two years in one book
DeleteLynley -- which company do you use?
DeleteHappy New Year! I still read blogs but so many of them, mine included, have gone into abeyance. So you have been a stalwart. Yes the time remaining as against time elapsed does give one pause for thought. I was noticeably more upbeat when the sun came out for a day. But we are back in the murk again and a sleepless night has me moving rather sluggishly. I have filled the cupboard with Vit C and Zinc and will make chicken soup as a cure all.
ReplyDeletePerhaps we should do as Lynley suggests and have our blogs printed -- maybe it would inspire me to get back to blogging again. At least you've been consistent with your blog - it's such a wonderful record of your family. At the very least, I'm betting that the oldest two grandchildren won't want it to disappear -- you have such gems from their childhood!
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