What I did on the holidays part III

Doing stuff for your family really is worthwhile. It enables your conscience to make the most outrageous requests of them, such as being picked up from the other side of town at 6am new years morning, or cash loans, car loans etc etc. ./ . . oh.. it also instills a sense of great personal satisfaction, to be doing things for your loved ones ... heh heh. erm. right.

So I did a LITTLE bit. I did a lot of cooking, that was just plain fun.

But, I also did some paint chipping at my brothers house, and also worked on installing a fireplace in his lounge room.

..and mums bicycle got a service and a VERY nice paint job, apparently ALL the kids in the area are spray-painting their bikes in black, so she should be able to make some new friends...

..and of course there was some concreting around one Mr James house.. and some fantastic and amazing efforts put into cleaning Bens kitchen.

Just to let you know, that the "good boy", given an opportunity, rises to the occasion to help out whenever possible. .. which thankfully is not very often. :)

What I did on the holidays, Part II

There was a lot done... firstly.. . Ihave to say, that hanging out with your family is kinda fun. Its certainly been a long time. since I did that.

So.... there were adventures..

I cooked a lot ..christmas.. 30 adults.. and some kids..

I hung out with my friends and drank wine...

......I marvelled how they changed over the years.

I caught up with all the family.....

and small children, who are all new to me..

Especially the new star, my nephew, Charlie....

What I did on the holidays....

Its always a funny smell... so familiar... its the smell of a summer evening in my street. I have not worked out why it smell like that. Its a combination of the types of tress that grow here, the sea that is just up the street.. and maybe something about the dry, dry air.

And its always an odd feeling. When I'm sitting alone at night, and leaving a place that I know so well, just like i will do tomorrow. The bright moon casting shadows across the shapes of my surrounds, that of course look so normal during the day, but in the inky blue light of the evening, form a new landscape.

And to hear nothing.. just to have peace in my loneliness.

It's such a comfortable sort of loneliness. Something that I sometimes feel I can live in forever, or no matter how tired I am, cannot leave for bed. Like a world I dont know enough about, yet.

It doesnt feel like an emotion. just a feeling that I love the world, and that I belong in it.