Best seats for Christmas.

It's 18th December and the whole world seems to be joining the head-long rush towards Christmas. So many things, so little time! But be careful a voice cries you might miss something special!

Today has been the day for putting up the Christmas cards. They are all around me as I write and I am surrounded by the good wishes and love of friends. Something speical!

Yesterday I was in London with friends and family and sat in a window seat in the restaurant at the top of the National Portrait Gallery watching the sun go down over the panoramic view including Trafalgar Square, Westminster, Big Ben and The Eye. The sky colour was magnificent and the setting sun tinged the scene in a warm glow as the lights of the city came on. Something special!

A thought from a guest on Parkinson's radio show this morning, seemed to capture the idea of the special. When asked where they would like to sit in a coffee shop the reply had been 'by the window so I can watch the magic!' Something special!

Phew!!!!!

OU results were out this Thursday (15th), I'm still basking in the glow of passing........What a relief!!!!! :-)

Well I never!!

Who would have believed it!! But maybe I should start from the beginning!

A couple of weeks back whilst having lunch with a friend I discovered that we had both booked tickets to visit the Christmas Spectacular at Thursford. This takes place in what is basically an aircraft hanger in a remote field in North Norfolk. Stranger still we discovered that we were going on the same day! This Thursday whilst parking our car in the pitch black dark field at Thursford with 2000 other people, whose car should pull in beside us but our friends. Small world or what!!! This was not the first time that this has happened to us, as we have booked the same flights with adjoining seats to Amsterdam, and even found ourselves in a concert that was so overbooked that additional seats were added to the stage and once again we found ourselves looking at each other with the performers between us! Fancy that!!!

Anyway, we took our seats for the Thursford experience and my husband looking askance as a rather large lady squeezed into the seat beside him! Conversation revealed that not only did they (the lady and her husband) know the little village in Leicestershire where we live, but had actually lived there themselves and worked in the same Special Needs School as me!!! How about that!! Would you believe it!!

By the way, the Thursford musical Christmas experience was indeed Spectacular and an absolute delight. We smiled all the way through! :-)