I feel more positive about the 2021 Holidays than I did about the 2020 Holidays.

Perhpas because last year was looking like more of the same, but this year, I feel like 2022 might actually be better than 2021.

Even if the Covid affected supply chains can’t catch up.

Like Canada dipping into its maple syrup reserves, I managed some strategic shopping during lockdown, so at least I will have some of my Christmas treats to be going on with.

And I hope you do too.

I can manage without my favourite Turkish Turkish Delight, and English chocolate, and even my favourite Belgian beer for another year, though I don’t have to like it. 🙁

So relax, and be grateful for what you manged in 2021.

I’ll be back January 10 2022.

This image is titled ‘Hope’, an allegory painted in 1885 by George Frederic Watts (1817 – 1904). It was reproduced as a lantern slide by permission of Mrs G.F. Watts and is posted her via State Library Victoria.

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