Christmas disappointment

Although I was up in time this morning, I was later than usual posting the link to this week's video as I got distracted, by an early call. We were told to expect the arrival of the boiler repair man between eleven and one. This meant I couldn't attend Mass at St John's, but I went down there anyway to take our food bank offerings, only to find that there was no collection this week. Ruth took it instead to add to offerings for Ty Bronna, the local Church Army supported youth homelessness centre, which also relies on donations. There's no end to the need of people who've fallen on hard times in and around our city.

The boiler repair man arrived at noon and the job only took him half an hour. It was a matter of replacing a valve, source of the leak. I had lunch ready for Clare when she returned from kindergarten, with a huge bunch of yellow roses,co a thankyou gift from the children, on her last day of working with them.

We had an email from Jasmine's dad John to say that of necessity, their Christmas holiday trip to had been cancelled, given the on-going covid crisis here. Disappointed, yes - but surprised no. Slowly we're seen the return of restrictions aiming to curb the spread, but really it was too late from the day the first case was noticed. It's likely it spread surreptitiously over weeks beforehand. Only yesterday did I put copies of this year's newsletter in with sixty odd Christmas cards announcing her coming. This afternoon I posted them all anyway, but amended the digital version to send with another sixty email greetings, after devising a Christmas greeting to accompany it. 

After supper we went to choir practice at St Catherine's and worked our way through all the special music for the service of Lessons and Carols a week tonight. It was hard work.

When we returned, I watched the last one of the thirty two episodes of 'Crossing Lines'. It gives no indication of being a closing episode, nor does it give tantalising indications of story lines incomplete, as do some of the movie sagas that have graced our screens this past decade. Well it was above average while it lasted. worth watching to gain insight into the dystopian side of our contemporary world.