One year closes, and another year opens ...

[shewhomust]

... and it doesn't feel all that different, of course.

We've had our usual New Year visitors, D. and valydiarosada, who were good company, though not quite good enough to keep me out of bed until midnight - or, as I'd rather put it, too good to oblige me to stay up until midnight. Yesterday we had additional visitors, D.'s sister and brother-in-law (and their very well-behaved dog) who came to lunch: six of us around the big dining table, I can't remember when we last had such a crowd! Perhaps that's why this morning I discovered a quiche in the bottom of the fridge which had somehow been overlooked: we didn't miss it at lunch, but it would have been a welcome discovery yesterday evening, when people were getting peckish without wanting an actual meal ...

D. and valydiarosada left this morning,and I'm gradually catching up with normality: a little work, a batch of laundry, deciding what to cook to make the most of the leftovers (also to empty the fridge, which is overdue defrosting).

What sort of normality will 2022 bring, though? Will we be at the pub for the quiz on Wednesday? Will we brave the Phantoms at the Phil on Thursday? Who knows? Watch this space!

Comments

[cmcmck]

Normality?

Wossat then? :o(

[shewhomust]

I think that's what I was asking!

[athenais]

2022 has brought the return of the fear of venturing out among others. Thanks, omicron variant. No travel, no eating out, no socially distant visits with local friends because it's too cold to sit outside, just two months of trying not to get sick. I can tell my mental health is going to suffer. I'm just holding out hope for a trip in March to Canada for a weekend and a longer trip in May to Sweden. But who knows? Too many of my friends have gotten breakthrough Covid.

[shewhomust]

I'm being cautious, but maybe not quite as cautious as you. And hoping that holiday plans will survive.

I do hope you make it to Sweden!