Some kind of observational end of year post

It had to happen eventually! These two days have been completely wiped from my memory, but I’m sure they were relaxing.

I will comment here that I do enjoy the time just after Christmas and before New Year, not because it’s holiday time but because I simply like the sense that one year is drawing to a close and a new one is about to open. For things to do I, unlike probably every other person on the planet (except maybe other Capricorns), actually kind of prefer the routine of the rest of the year. I like it when it’s busy; I like it when everyone’s around. Holidays to me always seem to mean that everyone else goes away and I am somewhere on my own (even here in Timor – I am away from the friends and family I’d usually be with, and all our new friends, contacts etc have gone back to Australia and elsewhere for the holidays... even Matt has a week in Australia for his cousin’s wedding soon).