A Little Festive Sadness and Pure Pleasure ........ ........

Our festive trip back to The Homeland was very lovely, but Nigel had a bit of a blip when we went past Motor World as it was very apparent that his beloved knitted nativity was no more ........

...... the window where he had spent so much time in awe and wonder was filled by great big yellow  things of a car type nature, that we couldn't identify, and huge posters. It was a sad moment but Nigel  was brave, quickly averting his longing eyes and sighing deeply, an era was finally over.

However, on a lighter note, we also drove past Castle Greysquirrell which looked most resplendently festive and very loved, which made our hearts sing, and then when we got back to The Towers, how spooky, there was a letter waiting for us from Andrew and Cheryl the people who moved into Castle Greysquirrell after us.

Let's just say it was emotional! The glass shop next door was, they said, looking much better, which we had already seen, the beeping blue thing (a huge container) outside,  that was such an eye sore for so many years (in fact Darrell painted huge flowers on it once to make it look a little better) was no more and with it's second floor extension finally built, the metal shutters removed and a lick of sage green paint it almost looked posh.

As for our much beloved pond, even though they didn't even realise that they had a fish pond until after they had moved in as they never looked in the garden, it is in very safe hands with new fish added, which all made us all beam.

Andy never really had time to enjoy it after all his hard work but would be so happy to know just how loved it is.  Life's too short to spend too much time in the past, unless of course it's with happy memories.  We have exchanged cards/letters every year since we made our move to Evesham and each year always look forward to these few lines to let us know all is still well.