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It always seems a bit of an anti-climax after the Christmas and New Year celebrations.  No more holidays to look forward to and long winter days stretching ahead.  Most people have returned to work and reality hits home.

I have taken a break to come on here in the middle of taking the decorations down. They took absolute ages to put up in the first place and it is strange how they always seem to come down much quicker!  At least I will be able to dust again.  I will not miss the decorations as such, it is the lights that will leave a gap.  It was lovely to sit in the evenings with just the festive lights on, so warm and cosy. Thankfully, we do have our glitter ball that was not a Christmas decoration and can still remain but it will not be quite the same.

We did see the New Year in, thankfully the fireworks were not as bad around here as in recent years.  The ones from the London Eye were truly spectacular and it must have been something to be there although how some of the people got home again I have no idea. We actually stayed up quite late because we then went on the computer and into a games room where Mike and I played Blackjack against each other!  Well, just friendly fun but we are both enjoying so much that we can play games together now and have a shared hobby.  So most evenings we will be going there for an hour.

The first day of 2007 was quiet.  We did not do a great deal.  I felt a bit under the weather (probably because I am not used to drinking and I did have a couple of glasses of wine the night before even if they were diluted with soda water).  I began reading one of the books I had been given for Christmas whilst Mike took down the outside decorations, then we just watched some t.v. and played our Blackjack.

I did have a nice surprise yesterday, a nice start to the New Year.  I won £50 on the lottery!  Bit of a fluke really.  I play the same set of numbers week after week, have done so for around two years and had the occasional £10 win.  Well, I did my numbers as usual or thought I had done.  A while back they changed the style of the tickets.  I had become so used to where the numbers used to be and did not like the new format.  Anyway, I thought I had ticked off my last usual number but I made a mistake and ticked one very close to it.  Hey presto, it won!  I had no idea until Mike came back from the local shop and waved the notes in my face.  That cannot be a bad New Year gift.

Becky is unwell with the bug that is going around so we did not see the family over the holiday although we did talk on the phone.  Mike is still suffering with his cold and cough. This bug really hangs around.  I remember I had it last year and it was a month before it really went.

Day after tomorrow we have the men coming to put in the cavity wall insulation.  I am not looking forward to it I can assure you.  It will be a good thing to have but as I hate loud noises, it is going to drive me around the bend for a few hours.  I shall have to stick some cotton wool in my ears or something.

Oh well, back to the grind.  Now I have to start putting all the ornaments back in place, I might alter some things around. They say a change is as good as a rest.

Have a good day my friends.