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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