My poor garden looks like it's covered in Christmas cake icing - so
pretty but I doubt my October planted red onions will survive it but the
leeks seem to be OK although the ground is too hard to dig them up !

Our Christmas plans have done a 180 degrees turn about! We were going
to our son in West Sussex along with our DIL's parents but since then
DIL's father has taken been taken ill and cannot travel. So our son and
family are coming here instead and suddenly I have it all to do! but I
don't mind. I may be getting rather long in the tooth but there's still
life in the old dog yet.

My Tony isn't too well tho - has a very bad chesty cough, so bad that
the doc has put him on steroids (6 a day), antibiotics, and also an
inhaler! All this on top of his kidney problems, he's also anaemic and
needing intravenous iron injections, so just as well we aren't
travelling anywhere in this cold weather. But, whatever, we're planning
to go all out and enjoy being with our family and to enjoy this Christmas.

Looking forward to the New Year and what it may bring, and Wishing you
all a Happy and Healthy Christmas.

--
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be,
since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
~Thomas Kempis, Imitation of Christ c1420
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