When I got back the weather was very grey and damp, and it has been like that until today which was bright and sunny. It is as well I haven't needed to do anything as I have been very tired from the journey back. Just went out briefly for a bit of shopping - amazed that the car started up first time after standing out so long, not going anywhere. It might be an old banger that has seen better days, but it's not bad.
So I have just been watching television and sewing, working on a Christmas present that wasn't finished in time. I have worked on it all day and just done a little patch, so I don't know how long it will take.
I didn't take many pictures, but will put up from time to time some that I took.
A couple of Christmas ones.
With Tim and precious grand daughters, and my teddy which is a hot water bottle. I should have done something about my hair before I left, I know I've just let myself go lately. Am thinking I might look for a hairdresser tomorrow to get it cut.
In the news............... which has been all about Obama's failure to join in a solidarity march in Paris with 42 other world leaders. I'm sure you've heard about it. I don't often venture into Facebook but I did today, and came across a post (is that what you call it?) from someone saying that of course he could not go, the security he would need could not have been provided, it would have been too much. What!!!!!!!!!!! There were more than 40 world leaders all marching together, the security they needed - and obviously had - is unimaginable. Is it being suggested that it wouldn't have been enough for Obama? He would need additional security, his life is more precious than David Cameron's, Angela Merkel's, Netanyahu's et al. Or is because he is, after all, the "Leader of the Free World"?????????
And while I am ranting about Obama - There is a doctor locked up in prison in Pakistan because he gave the CIA the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden. And I heard that Pakistan has just been given billions of dollars in aid from the US. Can anyone explain to me the thinking behind that, the morality of it?
Words are beginning to fail me, I'll jump off my soapbox.
Travelling back I had an interesting chat with a US immigration officer who asked me where "home" was. I told him I no longer knew; so he asked where my allegiance is, is it to the Queen, to which I replied, fervently, "oh yes". He then referred to the fact that we will be home when we have passed on, and seeing I recognised the theological point he was making we finished the conversation with a high five.
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