Last Monday of this year.

Working tonight it will be our first new year that we have been together that we are apart ,Helen is not happy that I won't be with her I can't help it I was I didn't ave to work that we could be close everyday and never be separated but we don't have that luxury .

went to the bank to pay some standing orders and pay payments set up through pay point cards , bought some red Leicester cheese freshly baked bread and a bunch of spring onions toasties for tea .

It was three am when we got to bed I didn't sleep well and got up three times , Helen is still in bed I am writing this in our front room on the settee drinking coffee and eating toasted fruit loaf with butter drinking coffee and listening to Bob Dylan "Blood on the tracks" its Monday morning grey dull and wet .its half past ten I go to work at half past seven tonight .

We took the Christmas decorations down the tree ,cards ,ornaments and lights and boxed them all away until next year makes you wonder , how many people are packing their decorations up for the year and for a few of us it will be the last time we see them , so let's all us be grateful for the year ahead and hopefully be thankful that we around to unpack our decorations this coming year.