the next chapter

I feel a little ashamed looking at this blog now - started with such good intentions and then so sadly neglected for the last two years.

But the truth is that I've just been too busy living life and enjoying all that our move south has brought; brighter, drier weather that has meant more weekends away and evenings out walking until the sun sets, dining outdoors at every opportunity and an improvement in health that seems to have brought an end to the bronchitis and pleurisy I was floored with two to three times a year.

Life has a knack of sneaking up and kicking you in the behind when you least expect it though and the sudden loss of Hobbs, after sixteen gloriously happy years, has completely pulled the rug from under our feet and turned our world upside down.

So this year we find ourselves reluctantly starting the next chapter in our lives without him; lives that will now run to a different routine with a different focus, direction and purpose.

What we will never forget though is the joy he brought us by embracing each new day as a fresh adventure, and we owe it to him and his memory to have that same enthusiasm for each and every day that this new year will bring.

With that in mind, I wish you all a wonderful New Year and may 2019 bring you happiness, health and a bright new start to each morning.