Wow! I can’t believe it is less than a week til Christmas. While I think most of you will be shopping, wrapping presents, organising families and generally trying to hide from the cold, here we are still ambling about in sandals! I haven’t bought a single present yet, and we still have no idea what we are actually doing for Christmas!
But you think you guys are busy. Stop and take a moment to think what it must be like for poor Father Christmas at this time of year. And on top of organising his elves, recruiting reindeer, wrapping presents and planning his night time trip round the world, he still found time to pay a visit to a group of very special children in Cosmo City!
Holiday club yesterday was a Christmas party which was a total surprise to all the children. We brought them all to the hub, which was all decorated and set out with food ready. While they were eating, who should stroll in my the great Mr. Clause himself. You also have to understand at this point that, being used to the sort of weather that you are currently experiencing in England, poor Father Christmas was struggling in our 30 degree heat! But still there he was, complete with 4 huge bags of presents for the children. They were so delighted, it was amazing!
Other than that, not much has been going on really. Lots more children have discoveredour house recently, and in doing that, have found we offer juice, crisps, biscuits and sometimes even chocolate as well! And of course great entertainment and the best company possible!!
How’s all your Christmas prep going? Hope it is all going well and you are looking forward to Father Christmas’s visit on 24th!
Hi Nic,
Nice to know you are keeping busy ha ha! Hope you and all the guys out there have a brilliant Christmas. Try not to miss home too much! (Well, I’m sure you are not missing the cold, wet and fog.) This will certainly be a Christmas time you will not forget!
God Bless,
Lin
Comment by Lin Terris — 22 December, 2008 @ 2:09 pm
Hi Nick,
Glad to hear all is still going well out there and hope you enjoy Christmas.
God Bless,
Vicki.
Comment by Vicki — 24 December, 2008 @ 5:03 pm
Michael’s Top Ten New Year’s Resolutions
If, like me, you are very good at thinking of new year’s resolutions but are not very strict at keeping to them, then you may or may not agree that 2009 is likely to be no different than any other year.But perhaps this list will inspire you and maybe, just maybe, this year you’ll stick to your new year’s resolution!
1. Try going to the gym. It’s a great conversation piece at parties. No one ever knows what you’re talking about but it don’t half sound cool to say you’ve gunned your lats, crunched your abs and blasted your quads. Sounds so SAS doesn’t it?
2. Try keeping in better touch with old friends. It gives you such a sense of satisfaction to get back in touch with old school chums and find out you’re earning more money than them.
3. Keep a diary. The only tricky thing with this, other than keeping it going, is finding a suitable hiding place so that the one you love never finds it and reads it. Having said that. An alternative trick is to put it in a place that you know your loved one is going to find it and fill it with ceaseless declarations of adoration for him or her. You’ll earn so many browny points!
4. Try doing something new every day. And no it doesn’t count that your something new is living on the day of January 2nd 2009 or January 3rd 2009 etc.
5. Try not obsessing so much about work and how much money you bring in each month. You can try it certainly, but brace yourself for that first credit card bill of the year… Oops! Didn’t have that much fun over Christmas did I?
6. Try signing up for those dance lessons you always threatened to take up. If you’re a guy though, always refer to your lessons to other guys as your extreme sports club. Much cooler.
7. Learn another language. See if you can learn more than I did. That is, French for where is the toilet? And German for I am a sausage.
8. Keep a tidier house. I mean come on! It only costs about £10 per hour to hire a cleaner!
9. Go to bed earlier. All you have to do is put something there that makes it worth your while going there. Gosh! The mind boggles what that might be!… What?… I was thinking of chocolates! What did you think I was thinking of?
10. Low fat diet. Ooooh, just the thought of that one makes me curl up in horror.
Anyone wish to share theirs?
Comment by Michael Sharkey — 29 December, 2008 @ 4:22 pm