We're planning a Christmas Dinner tomorrow for our Probus Club. Traditionally, the July meeting has been a celebration of Christmas in Winter and the dubious honour of hosting it has fallen on our shoulders. We have just over 20 members and are inducting 2 more tomorrow, so we're catering for 30. There are three tables in the dining room which will seat 26 and any leftovers will have to sit at the table in the kitchen.
Most of our members are over 80 and don't eat much but they'll be served turkey and ham, roast vegetables, stuffing and gravy, followed by pavlova, fruit salad and cream, mint slice, and Janet's shortbread. Janet has a lot to answer for. We were going to have a simple buffet but she said that the oldies would be disappointed and deserved to have a traditional sit-down meal. Of course, she's not here to share the work.
Today is the fourth day of beautiful weather and we hope it hangs around until tomorrow at least.
I've always read a lot and am always impressed when I come across a great piece of writing. Some authors have the knack of putting words together which create a special effect, when the sum of the words is greater than the words themselves. I thought I might, occasionally, repeat some of these elegant passages in my blog. Apart from anything else, they'll be an aide memoire when I read back in future years.
These words come from Julian of Norwich who was a Christian anchoress, born about 1343 and died about 1416. Her name was not Julian but her cell was attached to the wall of St Julian's Church in Norwich so that's how she was known. She was a mystic who claimed that God spoke to her in dreams.
'All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manners of things shall be well.'
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