Shiny Thing (make it all better)

Happy New Year everyone.

After probably the most stressful christmas ever, the shiny thing in the sky has returned today. Which helps to lift the spirits tremendously. Christmas itself wasn't too stressful, it had the good grace to depart quickly enough. But, every time somembody went past in a small boat, our boarding planks would fall in the water, and I'd have to go out with a torch, trying to scrabble around and retrieve them before they got washed away.

Thankfully, that is all in the past tense now, as the water level seems to have gone down considerably. As predicted, the waders I ordered will be pretty much redundant until the next time the river floods. I'm hoping that that will not be for another 3 years now.

Ever the optimist. :)