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Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
2026....Personal Hopes
And after last night's appraisal of the year that has been, it is now that time of the year to look forwrward to the new year that is to come. I have high hope for 2026, and hope that by its conclusion I will have undertaken the following x4 family holidays: Japan, London and Norwich.
Creative Projects
The Shadow Me books will get a combined and updated x1 book update, Hand in Glove will also get a major re-issue, along with a new introduction.
The See website trio should all up and running - Swansea, Gower and Glastonbury, and hopefully making a profit
GNS3 will be published
See Swansea"s Swansea Bay ~A Love Letter will be reprinted with accompanying text
My 1st Ghost Story for Christmas chapbook should also be published
Health
Have face flareups fade and etelid sorted
Work
Be happy in work
Play
Go Magnet Fishing
Lego Movie Scenes
2025
So, 2025 is finally in its deathroes. I will be glad to see the back of it, tbh. Whilst I met all my major creative goals, life has once again delivered its share of upset.
I published my 9th novel, Familiar, early in the year, at the same time giving my other 8 novels much-needed cover artwork. I also knocked out a couple of ghost stories, the first of which was published in the Guy N Smith fa nzine boo GNS2. The second ghost story will make its publishing debut early in 2026 in GNS3.
Whilst on the subject of Guy N Smith, I was honoured to be asked to provide the written introduction to the reissue of his classic horror, Son of the Werewolf.
Avalon, my Glastonbury zine, finally got its long-awaited sequel, thanks to our finally visiting Glastonbury for its May Day celebrations. And with the reissue of my Gower beaches guide, plus reworked covers of x2 of Explore Gower's earlier guidebooks, my series of Gower Peniinsula are growing into some I am rather proud to have created.
Healthwise, things hsven't been as tickety'boo as I was hoping for. I am still getting painful face swellings, my allergies are getting worse, and my eyelid surgery was an abjct failure, meaning I am back on the waiting list for a reapeat, somewgat more intrusive, operation.
Office work-wise, I have managed to avoid getting a formal attendance warning and have finally started hybrid working, which allows me to work from home at least twice a week, which is a real game changer for me.
Sometimes, life can hinder the opportunity to play as much as you want to, and I still haven't had he opportunity to use my fishing magnets. When I do finally get round to using them, you will find out here.
Travel-wise, I have already mentioned have taken time out to visit Glastonbury again. Unfortunately, we had to postpone our Japan holiday again, and had to swap our Norwich trip, to see my daughter, with a couple of London meet-ups instead.
The tragic news of the year was the loss of our dearest sweet little fudjcat. She had a good innings thoughand will always be treasured in our memories.
So, although it was a fairly up and down kind ofvyear, I am well up for 2025 doing one now and slipping into history.
Please, 2026, be kinder to us next year...
Cruel Crustacean Cutoff Curtailed
I have delayed the deadline for GNS3 content to January 2026. Christmas deadlines are cruel.
Monday Blues
Worked from home today. My firstborn returned home with her fiance, and I became sad again as I will have to go in to the office again tomorrow. Here are some pics of happier things - some more of our Christmas decorations:
Christmas Tree Time
After picking up this year's Cheistmas tree, we lowered into a but of water and let it soak we headed down to Mumbles for a family cocktail:
Other sights encountered along the way included:
Returning home, it was the decorating time:
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| The Lego Christmas decoration we have been working on these past few days |
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| Precious baubles made by my first-born |
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| And here it is is! |
Sad, Happy, Sleepy
Sad start to the day as we picked up our princess pwscat's ashes in the morning. We received a beautiful card from the vet who was with us during fudjcat's last moments earlier in the week:
Given the start to the day, it wasn"t really the best time four my office Christmas get-together. Bay hey ho.
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| Yours truly with work mates |
'Twas a lovely meet-up, where x2 pre-starter double gins and x4 cider pints meant I soon fell asleep when I got home just after 8pm and brought an early end to the day.
Christmas Mushroom 2024
Cheers to Cal for his latest hand-crafted Crimbo mushroon gift:
And here it is among my growing collection 🙂:
A Christmas Carol Pop Funko review
This is a fantastic set of figures. Scrooge is my favourite of the set by a country mile.
The ghost of Christmas present is perfect too, as is Jacob Marley, which has a fantastic texture to its glow in the dark surface. Tiny Tim was captured well with some amazing detail on the pop.
The ghost of Chrismas yet to come had an amazing soft feel to its trailing rags. A nice feature, which would have made the figure more striking, but is sadly missing, would have been to have have included the faces if Ignorance and Want peeking through the rags.
The only real disappointing figure for me in the set was the ghost of Christmas past, which was too yellow, the candles were a too blocky and, without its box labling might not have been recognised as A Chrismas Carol Figure. This latter fault is perhaps also present in the Ghost of Christas yet to come.
All in all though, it is a great set. Each figure comes with a great snowy London street stand that can interlock to present the collection nicely. And making three of the ghosts glow in the dark is also a cool feature.
As for my photography, I think I will do better on a second attempt.
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