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What a big festive season it’s been! Really lovely. Had eighteen people around the table on Xmas Day including my ex-husband Peter and his wife Linda from America. I haven’t seen Peter in over ten years, though we communicate via email regularly – generally about the children. He looks great and it was very comfortable and enjoyable catching up. I found we slipped back into that familiarity that comes from former shared lives, friends and experiences. You speak a kind of shorthand which our son and daughter found quite bemusing, even Nick confessed a little weird. They haven’t seen enough of us together having grown up with two fulfilled, happy and successful parents with separate lives on either sides of the world. Linda was very gracious and even took a photo of Peter and I with the Nick and Gabrielle. It was very healing, given the loss of my mother in November.
Too much food as usual, though Boris did a brilliant job cooking the turkey in our new wood fired pizza oven. And Santa was generous. I hope yours was as happy and merry.
And so I face the New Year with a big book to write, a travel article to complete before the end of the month and a plan to get fit and healthy. The past eighteen months have been very hard for me as my mother’s health declined, so now I think it’s time to look after me a bit.
A friend showed me a rough edit of a documentary he’s made on health and living longer. No dairy, no meat, no alcohol and no caffeine. He interviewed international doctors and scientists and has made a fascinating – if depressing – film. Sounds okay for a couple of weeks, but the memory of last night’s spring lamb slow roasted in the wood fired oven, lingers! And we got four brilliant cookbooks from Jamie Oliver and Stephanie Alexander under the tree.
Health, fitness, happiness. It’s finding the balance isn’t it?
Have a safe and Happy New Year.
Cheers
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