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Hi there I am back from my 3 week holiday and it has been full on since my return. This is the first real opportunity I have had since coming back to log on and try to catch up with some posts. I hope all my acquaintances on Mylot are well and nothing too disastrous has happened and you are all well and dandy? I have returned to work where we are extremely busy and it is hard trying to catch up with the backlog although I estimate by the end of Monday I will be up to speed with everything and hopefully things will settle down a little bit. Sadly my daughter and her family have been sick since I returned so we have been busy with them on top of that trying to get on top of Christmas and all the trappings that go with that. On Saturday I went Christmas shopping buying gifts and the job I detest most is wrapping them. Oh boy what a waste of time and effort. While wiling away the six and a half hours it took me to wrap the gifts I remembered my grandmother. She was a very nice lady who was wise in my eyes. She always without fail bought us gifts for different occasions throughout the year but she never ever wrapped the gifts up! She would always present us with out gift just in the bag it came from the shop where she bought it. She deemed it a great waste of time, effort and unnecessary expense. I guess I have got her thoughts on the matter firmly stuck in my brain. I find it such a chore to wrap them and after six hours of cutting, wrapping and sticking the paper around the gifts I was at the point of giving up the will to live. Just as I finished I found another three gifts to wrap. I am pleased to say it is done and dusted now. We celebrate Christmas in the traditional way with church attendance for Midnight mass, Matins in the morning and then the celebrations can begin and the indulgence of over eating and doing very little will begin. Of course there is the Queen's speech broadcast at 3PM on Christmas day which we tend to watch. She has probably already recorded it. There will be 7 guests for Christmas and my daughter and our grandchildren will be here on Christmas day! A nice four day break from work for me which is always welcome! Have you got Christmas organised and under control? The photo is of Willemstad the capital city of Curaçao. Despite nice blue skies and it being hot it seemed odd for me to see a Christmas tree!