Friday 3rd January - End of an Era, beginning of a new one?

I've been stitching on and off all day on the Corinne Lapierre calendar today, and still haven't finished the picture which was only supposed to take one day!

This is what I'm aiming for;

And here's where I've got to;

I was slowed down by deciding to swap the position of the mouse. 

I think that when I have filled that box he is carrying with little felt baubles tomorrow it will look better.

I'm amused that I will be decorating the mouse tree over the same days that I take down the decorations in our house. I expect there's some kind of philosophical point to be made there, but I'm too tired to hunt it down.

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End of an Era?

We had a phone call from the hospital this morning, which could only mean one thing. My father died peacefully in his sleep last night, and we are all relieved that he is at rest and no longer struggling with his increasing frailty . He was over 95 years old.

It's not for nothing that all his fellow family history enthusiasts used to call him, only half jokingly, the Patriarch. May he rest in peace and rise in glory.

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Once again my line for the day from The Lord's Prayer was oddly appropriate 

'Forgive us our trespasses'.