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My annual review
It's that time of year again, the time when I struggle to compose my annual newsletter to send with my Christmas cards. I produced the first one twelve years ago as a project to learn how to use the DTP program on my new computer. It was fun to do and, though saving no time, saved my having to think what to write on each card. Recipients appreciated it, least they said they did, so I continued each year. I have much to write about but the difficult part is making it interesting for a variety of people. Keeping items short and snappy is the tricky bit. I am no journalist. Fitting my efforts onto two sides of A4 is another problem. Photocopying the finished newsletter in the local stationery shop (worrying that I've missed a mistake) is the final one.
Quote for today
The funeral of the deceased lady having been 'performed,' to the entire satisfaction of the undertaker, as well as of the neighbourhood at large, which is generally disposed to be captious on such a point, and is prone to take offence at any omissions or short-comings in the ceremonies, the various members of Mr Dombey's household subsided into their several places in the domestic system. That small world, like the great one out of doors, had the capacity of easily forgetting its dead; and when the cook had said she was a quiet-tempered lady, and the house-keeper had said it was the common lot, and the butler had said who'd have thought it, and the housemaid had said she couldn't hardly believe it, and the footman had said it seemed exactly like a dream, they had quite worn the subject out, and began to think their mourning was wearing rusty too.
Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, 1848
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