New Year's Day

Very lucky. I put my Bethlehem cross on the strings for the Maltese cross. The Maltese one fell off and when we got to the Kerala restaurant I found the Bethlehem one was gone as well. Luckily the waitress spotted it on the floor. Have now done triple knots! I have worn it for at least 10 years. The annual trip to Vienna to watch the New Year's concert in company with the wonderful Petroc Trelawny. One day we will get tickets for this. Radio Times thinks Ricardo Muti was going to conduct but it is Christian Thieleman at the helm. We had a lovely day in Vienna on our honeymoon 44 years ago. Interesting to note that the music online stream before the Sydney fireworks was some old Ozzie rocker nearly as bad as the music churned out before the London fireworks. Bring back the Royal Fireworks music please! And the presenters were naff! QI for Christmas was good but Graham Norton got switched off for crudity. The new calendars are up - we have 9! Crossword from Christmas Tablet printed out and did most of it without looking anything up! Monkey kingdom on BBC2 set in Sri Lanka, Not had the traditional carols round the piano this Christmas but enjoyed playing Mendelssohn 6 Christmas pieces, Nutcracker selections, Bach and Bring him home from Les Miserables. Watched Christmas bake off and inside the sweet factory. The quantities they make are staggering.

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