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<!--Generated by Squarespace Site Server v5.8.4 (http://www.squarespace.com/) on Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:41:15 GMT--><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><title>December 2008</title><subtitle>December 2008</subtitle><id>http://scrapsoflife.squarespace.com/december-2008/</id><link rel="alternate" type="application/xhtml+xml" href="http://scrapsoflife.squarespace.com/december-2008/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://scrapsoflife.squarespace.com/december-2008/atom.xml"/><updated>2009-01-01T09:56:42Z</updated><generator uri="http://www.squarespace.com/" version="Squarespace Site Server v5.8.4 (http://www.squarespace.com/)">Squarespace</generator><entry><title>The End of the Year</title><id>http://scrapsoflife.squarespace.com/december-2008/2008/12/21/the-end-of-the-year.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://scrapsoflife.squarespace.com/december-2008/2008/12/21/the-end-of-the-year.html"/><author><name>Sally Rouse</name></author><published>2008-12-21T23:37:12Z</published><updated>2008-12-21T23:37:12Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-GB"><![CDATA[<p>I know that I have not been a great maintainer of my blog in recent months.&nbsp; In fact it is now something like 9 weeks since my last entry.&nbsp; I can only apologise to those of you who read this blog but whose email I do not have.&nbsp; I have tried to let everyone on my contacts list know that I am resuming my blog in January.&nbsp; But of course I have had the odd comment or two from those whose emails are unknown and then I couldn't reply!!&nbsp; Vixen, I am sorry you have had fruitless visit but new year, new intentions and who knows, I might even keep them!!</p>
<p>I had a bad patch when I felt unable to write.&nbsp; It's an odd thing.&nbsp; I am not grand at baring my soul to the world in many ways. I like to be positive and when I hit the wall and started to slide down it, I couldn't find anything positive to say.&nbsp; So I decided to say nothing!&nbsp; But that is behind me now and although I still have the odd moment of feeling a bit lost, I know I am in a much better place than I was a few weeks ago.</p>
<p>So I am going to wish you all a happy Christmas.&nbsp; Enjoy your families and have fun.&nbsp; We intend to do our best to enjoy ourselves.&nbsp; Dick loved Christmas and we can imagine his horror if we failed to really try to have a good time.</p>
<p>Let's make a date for next year.&nbsp; I have LOTS to tell you and witter on about.&nbsp; Projects in the pipe line and completed as well as plans for 2009.&nbsp; See you then!</p>]]></content></entry></feed>