Dear Friends,

Very Best Wishes for a Very Happy and Prosperous New Year, sincerely meant.

Just days before Christmas my All-in-one printer/ copier/scanner and fax machine, which which jams occasionally persistently jammed.
As well as the sending of the usual Christmas card and letters I was also trying to send out a newsletter for CASIA, (www.casiaweb.com)and to make lined winter trousers for my daughter, nothing of which got done before Christmas.

I tried to send a blog late one night but must have pressed a key accidentally as I lost the lot and was too tired to re-type. I then forgot my password but was reluctant to change it but all is well now and I have my original password back.

That was the final end of the malevolent spirit of 2006, a year I was certainly glad to see the back of.

I have been too busy to spend much so I am slightly better off than I thought I was. The retired and very competent husband of a friend of mine likes being kept busy with odd jobs for pin money so he has been doing various jobs, replacing dripping taps, some tiling,which is very uplifting as the general air of neglect was very depressing.

B.T. has also refunded me over £180. They have been charging me for a second rented telephone which was actually sent back to them when it was replaced by the present one seven years ago. I thought something was wrong. The assumption was that my second (and third) telephones were also rented, they are not, and simply being asked how many telephones I had did not solve the problem.

My two best charity shop buys are a full bellied gallon jug layered with years of grime, £2, which turned out to be a truly beautiful jug of beaten brass and copper - the weight gave me hope that is was not simply tin sprayed with a finish, and a tall and heavy red glass vase bought for £8 with a sticker on the bottom saying Marks and Spencer £45!

Last but not least I got some legal information that I have been asking for since last September.

Good fortune attend you all,

Halliana