Dear Travelling lady
1 About to leave for Leeds, Brighouse, and Hipperholme. My wellington boots are packed. I have just had a word with Giles. All is in place. Let the week commence.
2 I wonder how I will get on for the week. The visit will be the longest I will have made to anyone, as opposed to anywhere, for as long as I can remember. How will I get on? We'll see.
3 Meanwhile, a good visit to Uckfield yesterday. Max's birthday was celebrated by his familiar cousins. How fortunate to be brought up in the company of cousins. The young man is now 15 years of age.
4 Swimming this morning. The water was cooler than the water off the Brazilian coast.
5 I wonder how you are getting on. I will reply to your text. The absence, however, of longer communications is apparent.
Much love
The visitor
Sunday, 30 December 2012
Friday, 28 December 2012
1 As I expect that you will be able to log on, I will complete this first contribution to Homeandaway since May. In this after-Christmas posting, I declare that I will do better at Christmas 2013. I will send Christmas cards. I will enclose a newsheet with the cards. By so doing, I will not only march in step with everyone else, but I will avoid the need to send either a message or a letter after Christmas.
2 I take it that you are at sea. I reckon that you have spent a night in the air, and a night in a hotel. If so, then you are on board. Maybe you haven't yet sailed, but you may have had some time to explore the ship. Find the way to and from your cabin. Find the relevant dining-room. Find the library, the internet café, and at least one of the swimming pools. Having noted the contents of the evening's talks, lectures, diversions, you will be ready, I hope, to spend an amiable evening.
3 Here? There has been a reduction in the amount of paper upstairs and downstairs. It may not look like it, but I reckon a reduction has been achieved. Though I have received Christmas cards from people I meet frequently, I will not cavil. (Return to para 1.) Later this evening I will drive to Brook House for a first meeting with a detainee for a year or more. I wonder how I will get on.
4 Tomorrow, after swimming (maybe), I will have breakfast with James Baldwin. The talk, I hope, will be about politics, local and national. I want to hear his reflections on his own defeat, on the removal of the LDs from the town council, and on the national prospects for the LDs. Suppose that five LD MPs are returned next time. Shall we tell each other that we are back to the days of up to ten Liberal MPs, with the occasional by-election victory to be followed by defeat at the following general election.
5 And six nights at Giles' house. I can't remember when I have spent so long at anyone's house.
6 Send news.
Lots of love
Stayathome
2 I take it that you are at sea. I reckon that you have spent a night in the air, and a night in a hotel. If so, then you are on board. Maybe you haven't yet sailed, but you may have had some time to explore the ship. Find the way to and from your cabin. Find the relevant dining-room. Find the library, the internet café, and at least one of the swimming pools. Having noted the contents of the evening's talks, lectures, diversions, you will be ready, I hope, to spend an amiable evening.
3 Here? There has been a reduction in the amount of paper upstairs and downstairs. It may not look like it, but I reckon a reduction has been achieved. Though I have received Christmas cards from people I meet frequently, I will not cavil. (Return to para 1.) Later this evening I will drive to Brook House for a first meeting with a detainee for a year or more. I wonder how I will get on.
4 Tomorrow, after swimming (maybe), I will have breakfast with James Baldwin. The talk, I hope, will be about politics, local and national. I want to hear his reflections on his own defeat, on the removal of the LDs from the town council, and on the national prospects for the LDs. Suppose that five LD MPs are returned next time. Shall we tell each other that we are back to the days of up to ten Liberal MPs, with the occasional by-election victory to be followed by defeat at the following general election.
5 And six nights at Giles' house. I can't remember when I have spent so long at anyone's house.
6 Send news.
Lots of love
Stayathome
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