Three Quotations

Three things have been important to me this week (well probably more, but these spring to mind). So my three quotations reflect those three things:

Family - I took a day off this week to travel to a family funeral. My godmother, who is also a second cousin,  but call aunt, lost her husband, my uncle. I have wonderful memories of him, Uncle Ted, dancing with my aunt at parties, singing at family occasions and just being there giving us advice. He also loved to play cards; every family event ended with a game of cards.

So a family quote seems to be appropriate:

"You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them" - Desmond Tutu

After the funeral, I spent time chatting to my brothers, cousins, aunts and uncles. We don't see enough of each other and it was good to have the opportunity. Its a shame that it took the death of Uncle Ted to make that happen!

The final letter arrived telling me I will definitely be redundant from my job on 31st March so:

"Work is the curse of the drinking classes" - Oscar Wilde

Right now, work is a chore. For some bizarre reason, I am busier now than i have been in the last year or two. I guess the fact that people have left already and that we have work to finish off and to handover has something to do with it.  Today I went shopping at lunchtime. I bought some food for dinner and a bottle of wine. I pondered the cost of that trip to the shop while on the way home and realised that I had spent far more than i intended on the wine. I have to admit it was very nice and if I had known what wonderful wine I had bought I might have left work earlier today (9 working days and counting).

I am off to see Sir on Tuesday:

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop - H. L. Mencken

It is nearly a year since Sir and I began what we do. We don't call it love to each other. But it is something very special and we can't and don't want to stop it. I guess you might call it love.  Certainly we care about each other alot, and that feels good.