Happy New Year?

Another New Year. What will this year bring? Hopefully good health, peace and happiness. Not like last year. This time last year I went over to the awful orphan's house with an olive branch. We'd had a fight a couple of days earlier, so being the gown up I decided to go over with my husband, taking a home made sweet dish as a peace offering. Well it was a good effort but apparently not good enough. We got a chilly reception - the weather outside was warmer. The nephews had a friend over and the awful orphan's girlfriend was there too. We managed to sqeeze a hello out of the brothers but trying to get a Happy New Year just wasn't going to happen.

We sat down. The awful orphan offered us drinks. We both declined. The little brother had a bigger problem with both of us than the agrieved brother; he wasn't talking at all. After about 5 minutes I went in the kitchen to put the sweet dish into a dish of theirs so I could take my dish back home. I couldn't get a word out of the girlfriend - don't know what her problem was. Frosty the snowman would have been friendlier. But hay ho! I got my dishes and sat down for another couple of minutes. I asked my husband if we could go. Girlfriend was making dinner - there was enough to feed the 5,000, but we didn't get an invite to stay. We wouldn't have stayed but it would have been polite to be asked; that's what Panjabis do, unless they're tight or they have no manners.

So off we poddled, down the road back to our warm loving family to report on any progress.

So that was 1st Jan '09. Not a great start. Tried but apparently not hard enough.

What will this year bring? 1st Jan '10? I hope it will be better than last year. God willing the awful orphan will come to his senses and we can have some peace and quiet and get on with our lives. Lets see what this year brings.