Tony Grist (poliphilo) wrote,
Tony Grist
poliphilo

Looking Back At Christmas

My daughter lives in Leicester, my eldest son in Romford and my youngest son in a village near Preston, Ailz and I are in Kent and the children's mother in Highgate. Highgate is the closest this scattering has to a centre so that's where we congregate on feast days. Also my ex-wife's partner is a wonderful cook.

We've been up to Highgate twice over this Christmas season. Once because a daughter-in-law and grandchild were staying over and once because my daughter and her family were. The last time absolutely everybody got together was the summer of 16- or was it the summer of 15? Anyway it's a rare occurrence.

Christmas Day itself we spent here- with my sister and brother-in-law. Ailz cooked dinner. Dr Who was fun. We will spend much of next year wondering where Jodie Whittaker's free-falling Doctor is going to land.

It's been a wonderful Christmas. Emotional. It makes all the difference to have children in the family who are old enough to know what's going on.

And now it's snowing. It won't settle; the ground's too wet. It rained through the night and the front path is under water. There's a high wind blowing- moaning and soughing and doing railway-train impressions....
Subscribe

  • Petworth

    We walked down to the lake over the vast expanse of dry yellow grass, avoiding as best we could the droppings of sheep and geese and at a certain…

  • Frustrating

    I like to visit new places but I also like to sleep in my own bed. When we first moved down to the South East we explored the surrounding area…

  • Worship

    What Quakers do in what we call our hour of "Worship" is very much up to them as individuals. Some read, some meditate, some pray, some…

  • Post a new comment

    Error

    default userpic
    When you submit the form an invisible reCAPTCHA check will be performed.
    You must follow the Privacy Policy and Google Terms of use.
  • 5 comments