Happy New Year to all of you. We noticed that Hogmanay was cancelled in Edinburgh because of the stormy weather which we are now enjoying on the first day of 2007. On the stroke of Danish midnight the weather was not so bad so we were able to enjoy other people’s fireworks across the fields. We never use them ourselves because of the thatch. We did however dare to light sparklers and set off party poppers but not in the vicinity of Rosemary out of fear that she might run off screaming down the lane.
Other people had different sorts of fireworks we discovered when reading the local paper. It seems that a Nimtofte resident was carted off by the police, the day after Tony’s bomb scare, for having a hoard of illegal firearms and hand grenades. It was even the same bomb disposal team which ransacked his house and blocked off the centre of Nimtofte while they assessed the extent of the cache. The address rang a bell and when I looked up Mia’s contact list, sure enough, there it was, the address of one of her classmates who had only been in the class three months before mysteriously disappearing last Christmas with her mother and causing Mia great distress into the bargain. Perhaps we now know why. But before they disappeared Mia had been over to play. Nice!