21st December 2017
I have the house to myself for the next seven days as Nicola and Colin are off to Austria. I spent most of the day wrapping presents.
I was surprised at how long it took to cover objects in paper, the number of times the sticky tape stuck to my fingers, and the hairs on the back of my hand, and the pain I endured releasing myself. It was like an endurance, and I can’t believe I used to wait until Christmas Eve to wrap my own children’s presents. I used to discover bits of sticky tape stuck to the table edge at various times of the year, and I used to laugh. Of course being in someone else’s house I had to double check that I hadn’t left anything on their table.
Another Lifetime to go 