Monthly Archives: December 2013

A message from a fab lady.

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Morning Russ

While I sit here Christmas morning and eagerly await my teenage boys to wake up, gone are the days of 5am opening stockings now I’m the one who gets up and can’t sleep being more excited about our day than they are!

I have read your blog today.  A year ago we were in Westport at Clair’s spinning class about this time on Christmas morning.  We should have made our trip a year later and could have been together in Vermont we stayed in Ludlow which as I remember was very close to Alwyn and Nadia’s beautiful home.

I’m feeling all your frustrations – what a year.  I know you are tired of us trying to make it better.  You know you have rediscovered your adoring family.
So now instead of making Dani a cuppa in bed and rushing off to kayak, get a teasmade (probably today it’s George Clooney nespresso) and relax in bed with Dani.  Those amazing daughters have always been there now you can savour every moment with them they grow up so fast blink and you would have missed it, you may have slowed down but at least you can enjoy every second you are with them.  Their love for you is even stronger and deeper, Richard lost his dad around their age in an accident and says how he misses him still, they have their dad doesn’t matter to them a bit if you are different it’s the same dad they adore.

I can imagine how tired you are.  Manhattan at Christmas is crazy it exhausted us all those crowds and waiting for the lights to change to cross endless roads.  Imagine how that fresh mountain air is going to make you tired after breathing hospital air for 6 months, let the family enjoy their activities and if you get to do your sitski all the better if not it’s for another time no rush.  Meanwhile continue to work on those familiar pecs and biceps I saw in one of your recent photos.

Have a wonderful Christmas day with all your family around you say hello from us.  I can picture that inviting fireplace in their exquisite living room.  I shall be thinking of you today as always.  And by the way can you send Dani down the liquor store to pick up the bottle of wine we didn’t bring to Alwyn’s last year please.

Get yourself safely back to London and see you then.

Big hugs
Trudy x

Blog from the bog.

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That’s right, that’s where I’m sat right now. 

It’s Xmas morning and I await the first Yuletide Log of the Season….
Ah, a result!
Thanks to Melissa for calling me on FaceTime video call just a moment ago. I think it was the ‘help’ I needed intestinally, if you get my drift…
She looked a little perturbed to see me naked on the bog, but hey, she’s family. 
And it’s not the first time, I’m sure, thinkin back… She used to live with us. 
Happy Xmas to all you lovely people out there from me, and from my family here in Vermont. 
I hope those that can will get out there and ski today. The sun is shining, and there’s a whole load of new (artificial) snow on the ground. Perfect, tho bloody cold out there. 
I’ll have to wait til the 27th to have a try, but at least that ensures an uninjured Xmas day for me!
The kids are dead excited, tho a little short of presents as they opened most of them at home last week… Yep, they regret that now, surprise surprise. 
My present from Dani got lost in the taxi from NY to Alwyn’s too… Tho got found and should get posted to here eventually. 
I’m fine about that, presents don’t matter to me much now;  seeing so many happy people around me is a shit load better. 
We have lunch at 4, so hours to full between now and then. 
For me that means TV and music and chat I guess, and I’m perfectly content with that. Pre accident I’d definitely gone for a Xmas canoe, but to be honest that did used to P my wife off. 
I think if you asked her now, she’d admit that the pain I was then is trifling compared to the work I am now mind. 
Her Xmas Day morning involved doing things no one outside the medical profession/ DynaRod ought have to even read about. 
Thank you Dani for smiling ( ok, grimacing ) your way through it. 
Merry Xmas Darling. 
This evening should be great fun. 
More Balderdash beckons. Everyone’s into it now. I won again last night, but the rest are closing on me… thankfully ( no one likes a smartarse 😉
It must be evening in the UK, so you’ll be mostly pissed by now. 
Good, keep going. 
I would have done. 
May peace be with you. 
Xx

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Sit skiing was cancelled yesterday due  to the weather conditions. 

Before we got here, they’d had the best December snow in years.. Since we arrived it’s rained non stop. 
The sit ski school said the slope was too rutted for a first timer so phoned Alwyn to  cancel. 
Dammit, I’d built myself up to give it a go, and was dressed and ready. 
That’s life. 
Everyone else has skied a day or two , and tobogganed, and ice skated, all stuff I’d have done with huge enthusiasm. 
Glad they’ve done it tho, especially my girls, who are absolutely loving seeing their 5 cousins. 
Instead of sit skiing, Alwyn, my Dad and I drove to the town of Woodstock for lunch. (Stu and Dani took charge of the kids’ skiing, or was that the other way around..)
It’s the first time just  the 3 of us have EVER had lunch, and we talked a lot and told funny stories. Was a really good few hours. 
I fell asleep for about 3 hours when I got back. Given I’ve done absolutely zero physical exercise in about 4 days I don’t know for the life of me why I’m so tired. 
Or why my bloody shoulders ache so much. 
Last night all 15 of us had dinner here together, and played games. 
Good to know my bullshitting talent is still good enough to win at Balderdash. 
Lily and Chloe sang a bit too ( voices of angels ) whilst doing some weird glass tumbler juggling routine , learnt off the Internet ( isn’t everything nowadays ). 
Looks like it’ll be the 26th or 27th that I’ll get on a ski, Christmas to get through first. 
That’s ok. There’s no pressure on me at all from the rest of my family to put my buggered body through it, but I do want to try it  at least a couple of times, just to do some sodding exercise if nothing else!
Missed my work Xmas party (in London) last night. 
I was historically always the worst behaved person at it. Well, you’ve gotta lead by example, right?
I hope they all had a great night, they deserve it. 
I hope someone else dressed as sexy Superman/ wore a pink Morph Suit… But I doubt it 😉
Russ