New Year Rambling

Hi everyone,

The year's trundled on, regardless of how we viewed it, and no matter what's happened, here we are again on New Year's Eve.

I'm always saying that I'm really not invested in it as an event, but for anyone who would normally be enjoying it and celebrating, I guess New Year's Eve is going to be a very scaled-down affair this year.

I do like to reflect a bit on the past year and as always it's been a real mixture of good and bad. We had a close family death early in the year, followed by lockdown, the cancellation of a long awaited foreign holiday and a cancelled Christmas, and my sister having a really bad fall. But on the plus side, just before lockdown I had an absolutely lovely couple of days away on a spa trip with my daughter and granddaughter, a really fun holiday in UK in which I discovered how interesting and lovely Warwick is, and best of all, so far, the family has escaped the clutches of the awful covid-19.

My daughter reminded me to cherish the little things this morning when she posted a few of her year's highlights on social media. Her new kitten, canoeing with her sea cadet group on the Thames, in which she got an unexpected dunking, causing her cadets much glee, time spent working at home instead of trudging into central London every day and a few happy times we've managed to connect through the summer when it was safer.

This has been a year quite different from anything any of us have previously experienced, and just because tomorrow marks the start of 2021, it doesn't automatically mean we get to escape its difficulties.

I don't do new year's resolutions, but I will resolve this new year's eve to try to remember all the little things which we often overlook in our daily lives as having been treasured moments.

Thanks to all members of our Care Community for travelling through this year together. For all your support, tips and sound good advice and keeping spirits up, and even if we can't assure it, let's hope that 2021 will see at least a partial return to a more usual and more relaxed way of life again.

"Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one."

- Brad Paisley -

Photo: Unsplash: Chandan Chaurasia

[sassy59]

Hi Callendersgal, what a year we’ve all been through. It’s one to put behind us but there were snippets of light during the gloom.

I remember lovely times spent with family during the summer when things seemed a little more “normal” for a while. Eating out to help out where we all felt safe but turned out to be a bit of a turning point for the virus.

A new year ahead. We don’t stay up to see it in but it’s a shame for families who would normally get together. Anyway, vaccine in the pipeline at some point. Soon I hope.

Thank you to everyone on this kind and caring forum. I’m honoured to be a small part of it and wish you all a peaceful, safe new year.

Take care all. Xxxx🙏🏻💜💖😘

[Lynd]

Happy new year, let's hope for better things. X