Halloween,
2014
Up in the
village, the smaller children will be going round the houses “guising”. They will be dressed up and most can be
unrecognisable! They will sing a verse,
say a poem, tell a joke and then get a treat – a few sweets, some fruit,
perhaps a 20p. As none of the children
live near this part of the village, we shall not have guisers – unless the odd
stray disguised adult!
My last
guest of 2014, Elizabeth from Germany, was here last week and left on the morning train on the 24th. I
hope you enjoyed the concerts in Dunblane, Elizabeth and got home safely. Thank you for the gifts you brought.
I was in
Edinburgh the week before. Moira was at
a course till the Thursday and Colin took the boys to Blackpool for a couple of
days. Catriona and I had fun! Sam arrived on the Sunday and Moira and I saw
him off to Sydney the next morning, early.
He is enjoying his time in Westmead Hospital and will be there till
Christmas, when he will head north to Toowoomba, for a few days with Ian and
Alison.
All this
year I have been delighted to tell you about the good weather. Well, on the 20th, as I was
travelling home from Edinburgh, it got more and more wild and I was meeting the
tail end of hurricane Gonzola! It was in
no hurry to pass and we were battered by gale force winds and torrential rain
for about ten days. The result has been
many landslides, north, south and east of us – we were cut off briefly, as the
trains were affected too – still are!
I have happy
memories of this year’s busy time, when I met so many old friends and made many
new friends. Thank you all for coming to
stay with Ruah and me. We loved every
minute!
I hope you
will come again, if not next year, and then soon - please do not try to beat
the 38 year gap of Ron and Janet, the 35years of Brian Dunn (see you in April,
hopefully!) and the 20 years of Tony and Sandra!!! It was marvellous to see you all again. And
Richard and Angela, in China right now – did you do enough practising with the
chop sticks? Say hello to James from
me….
It may well
be a quiet winter, but I’ll remember this year with such pleasure - you were
all special, wonderful guests……
My thoughts
at this time are with Ian and my sister in law Alice, in hospital in Toowoomba
and Nuneaton. Get better soon and come
home… I wish I were nearer….
Ann
