...and I'm looking out at Exmoor across lawns that are unnaturally lush and green in this oddly warm weather: where there would normally be crunchy frost there are now emergent daffodils, and sunshine dapples the trees and creates great sweeps of light across the rising moor beyond the valley. There is no smoke curling out of cottage windows - it's just too warm to merit a fire today, although a fresh breeze indicates that could change.
Thoughts go to people in Lancashire whose homes have been wrecked by floods: a miserable way to end the year...
A laptop means that in the intervals of being with family-and-friends for Christmastide gatherings, one can keep track of current projects, and plan for the year ahead...
On Saturday Jan 16th, at 12 noon, a celebration to mark the 5th anniversary of the establishment of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. Church of the Most Precious Blood, the Borough, London Bridge. The choir of the John Fisher School will be singing. Over these Christmas days, staying with family first in Oxfordshire and then here in Somerset, I've been busy with "Auntie Joanna's knitting", namely cross-stitch samplers and kneelers...I love to sit sewing while we all sing carols round the piano, or while a noisy game of charades is in progress (it doesn't hold back mental processes - I held my own in charades while stitching progressed). Latest project is some kneelers for the John Fisher Chapel. The school playing fields occupy part of of what was once Croydon Airport and the boys recently made a video telling the history with support from the Croydon Airport Society... as this year marked a quarter of a century since the Battle of Britain, I'm doing a commemorative kneeler...
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