Being slack!

While a lot of bloggers seems to be very organised and prepared for the New Year I have been slack once again and am dragging the chain. Funnily enough I just had a look at my post this time last year Onward and Upward into 2018 and I was the same then so obviously turning 70 hasn't improved my organisational skills. LOL! Mind you, my excuse this year for being unprepared for the New Year is that I have read four books this past week. Oops!

I was surprised to read that I had mentioned we needed some major renovations to be done and that some arm twisting would be required to achieve that. Well, as it turned out I didn't have to do hardly any arm twisting at all :-)

 

 The biggest renos of the kitchen and bathroom are finished and sometime in the far distant future, when our nerves have returned to normal, the  laundry will be worked on to make it efficient, painting of walls will be done and floor coverings at the back of the house will be laid. The sooner the better for the floorcoverings as they needed to be done years ago.

 Anyway, I just wanted to wish everyone a very Happy New Year and I hope it brings you all much joy and good health. I have an old friend who is going into 2019 facing some very unpleasant health challenges already so I would appreciate your prayers for her as she has more tests soon now that the surgery is over. We were hoping for a good report after surgery but surprisingly it wasn't to be. I am sure she will recover eventually but walking into the unknown is always a challenge. I have friends who have been through the same situation before and I am sure they will be a big comfort to her.

 

I grew my first hollyhocks this year which I was quite chuffed about and the friend who gave me the seeds has since sent me some pale pink and pink ones to plant as well. I am getting a bit late with planting them I think as I read last year somewhere that they should go in around December but with the tradies here tramping all over the garden I was a tad hesitant to do that until they had taken their steel capped boots elsewhere :-)

Have a Happy New Year everyone and I will refrain from complaining about how much the fireworks let off tonight have cost.Nearly 6 million dollars in Sydney alone. Really!!!