Happy New Year to you, Dear Reader. Hope 2018 turns out well for you, and if it doesn't, that you'll have the strength and grace to cope. Well
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We started our New Year in bed, we are 60 after all. Apparently there was quite a lot of noise around midnight, dockyard hooters, ships' hooters, fireworks etc. I slept through it all
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Hope you had a good Christmas, Dear Reader. Hope 2016 was kind to you too. Having read a few Reviews of the Year and others' blogs it would appear that 2016 turned out to be one of those years we'd rather forget, but won't be able to because choices . . !
Happy (Chinese) New Year to you, Dear Reader. Apparently this is the Year of the Monkey and the period of celebrations last from yesterday's New Moon through to the full moon in a couple of weeks' time. You may well have seen reports of the major congestion at a Chinese railway station over the weekend as people tried to get back to their family
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