Well folks, 2021 is almost over and 2022 is about to begin. I really hope that this year will be much better for all of us. I've realised that I only went out 4 times this year - three times to the hospital and once to the opticians!!!! I really must try and get out more and hopefully to more interesting places rather than hospital or an optician!!!! One of my New Year's resolutions is for me to buy myself a car, so I can go to the beach whenever I want to. Well that's the plan anyway!!!!

Meanwhile I couldn't resist making more resin items - when will I get fed up doing it and return to my patchwork quilting?

I found different settings for my pendants - and I must say they've turned out better than I thought they would.


I had Christmas Day all to myself, but I talked to Mandi on the internet, just to catch up on what she was doing on her special day (married 9 years) as well as it being Christmas Day, and she had some of her friends round and wine was flowing freely!!!! Now my son and his family came up to see me yesterday - I hadn't seen my daughter-in-law nor my grandchildren for a year, and it was about 4 months since I'd seen my son, Tony too. It was wonderful seeing them, but not being used to people around, and the children were bored, not being able to go to the beach (too cold and wet), that after a few hours, I was getting jittery and needing quiet. Luckily they all felt it necessary to go, as it was about a 2 hours trip back home. When it's just my son visiting, time goes by so quickly.

Well my wonderful son and family brought me a superb Christmas present. It's a "Portal" tv. I can give and take internet calls, and it has loads of apps (which I've still got to find out about) and there is someone called "Alexa" who I speak to and ask her to find me all sorts of things - it's an amazing piece of technology. Also the camera follows me around, it's honed in on my voice and my face!! A bit scary really - my own laptop is about 5 years old, and it's already old!!! This is a fantastic piece of equipment - I can hear Mandi so well on it and she can hear me. So I will have to go onto YouTube to find out more about how to use it.

Okay folks, I do hope you managed to have a good Christmastime and I wish you all a wonderful New Year. Let's hope this COVID19, with this Omicron variant will soon become less dangerous, that's as long as we all get vaccinated. The hospitals are full of COVID patients who haven't been vaccinated (wonder if it's made them realise that maybe they should have had the jab!) I really do hope that 2022 will be a good one for all of us.

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE XXX