Christmas again

Here it is again. The season for Christmas cards, gifts, getting together with family ...and feeling horribly guilty about all the people you didn't find time to keep in touch with/ask for the weekend or a meal/give back that book you borrowed - over the past year.

It's awful that even when you're retired there still isn't time to do all the stuff you should be doing. Most of the time you get on with life with the occasional glance at the calendar to make sure there really isn't a spare weekend, evening or lunchtime somewhere. But at Christmas you can't escape it, can you.



No tree should be without a Grateful Dead bauble!

The top priority stuff gets done: family commitments, household chores, partner nourishment, the activities where people are depending on you, and (of course) there's time for other things you really enjoy. But always there's more you could have done with or for other people you care about. And you know you'd have enjoyed doing it too.

So instead of my traditional moan about Christmas (which invariably gets me into deep sh1t with C when she reads it about 6 months later - however witty I think it was) I'm going to take the advice of the brilliant Fascinating Aida. (Follow the link!)

Hope you have a great Christmas!

And if I didn't communicate enough with you in 2014 it's nothing personal! Will try harder!