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Things That Gladden The Heart

A triple IPA to blow away this head cold that’s been threatening me all week. At 18% it should make a sizeable dent in it. Hic.
 
Let the youngest 3 all watch a The Santa Claus in our downstairs study with the sofa bed pulled out, went in just over an hour & half ago and found all 3 of them curled up together fast asleep, didn't want to disturb them so covered them up and let them sleep. Kids can be the most wonderful and heart warming things. Tomorrow we post our Santa letters and on Christmas eve they'll wake up to a reply courtesy of grandad doing proper calligraphic lettering to add to the mystique for them. I love how my older ones who know its not real really help the little ones believe and indulge them.
 
Wolf said:
Let the youngest 3 all watch a The Santa Claus in our downstairs study with the sofa bed pulled out, went in just over an hour & half ago and found all 3 of them curled up together fast asleep, didn't want to disturb them so covered them up and let them sleep. Kids can be the most wonderful and heart warming things. Tomorrow we post our Santa letters and on Christmas eve they'll wake up to a reply courtesy of grandad doing proper calligraphic lettering to add to the mystique for them. I love how my older ones who know its not real really help the little ones believe and indulge them.
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Sometimes life is really good 👍🏻
 
Pin-seeker said:
Sometimes life is really good 👍🏻
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It really is the simplest of things that make life really good. Like I know in the morning the youngest will wake up at 630am like clockwork she will bypass our bedroom and go and climb in bed with my oldest daughter whose 18 who she idolises, and like she always does the oldest will put a Disney film on and watch it together until its finished then both get up and have breakfast together it makes every weekend start with a smile without fail seeing them go through that little routine and not once does my oldest ever moan her littlest sister has woken her up.
 
Rupert meeting is friend Oscar from Puppy classes for the first time in about a year. chased each other around for a while and had mental fun.... then we had to go our separate ways, hope we see them again
 
The school Christmas lunch, capping a great few days. Our Spanish language class of about 30 Brits having lunch with the English language class of about 30 Spaniards, the youngest of which was about 60. Our honoured guest was the local mayor, who was fantastic going round everyone. In the last few days we've met the mayor from 3 different villages, as we've gone around on school trips. We've also been into our own town hall, sorting residencia and a few other things like council tax (€174 a year).

If you want to know what a real welcome is, find a very Spanish area and just immerse yourself in the village. I can walk into the village and guarantee I'll get stopped a few times for a chat. I can walk into the local bar and have no problem having company. The language might be a bit mixed, and it might take a few minutes for the conversation to flow but what a fantastic place to live.

Life is good.
 
Every time I go in the garage and see Josephine
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