Pain needn’t be suffering 24/7. You can distract yourself in many different ways. Laughter can be a beautiful cure. Enjoying the warmth of the sun, another. Ooo and smooth Christmas jazz helps too 😎

I haven’t been into giving and receiving presents for years and years. I’ve been such a traveler, without family, so it wasn’t a thing. Yesterday I opened a big box from my sweet mother in law and found all these parcels. I cried a little and realised how much I’d missed them.

I’m a member of the fb group Oriental Shorthairs Rule!! because I’ve got a fairly unhealthy obsession with the breed. I found this catto capture and thought it personified so well the general mischievousness of cats at Christmas time (and all times let’s be honest 😸).

I felt everso mature yesterday treating myself to the finer things in life. I also celebrated the fact that they were both on offer so I saved money 🎉 I may or may not have enjoyed a tipple of one of them to make my walk home mildly more enjoyable 😉 Love the elegant bottle.

I’m enjoying a rainforest soundscape I made for tomorrow’s Tropical Harp live session 21:15 GMT. As the wind bellows outside with 40mph gusts on the edge of a scottish valley, I’m inside in a warm forest with birds, frogs and monkeys. Maybe a wee tad of thunder 😉⚡

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