GOW and Dolls

December 2008

Well hello again.
Another Christmas is nearly upon us and I’m still walking on this tiresome planet. It’s been a mixed year with plenty of prosperity at the start of 2008 and now near poverty at the end of it.

I remember when I was a wee girl I always woke up early on Christmas morning to see what Santa had brought me. There was always a hand knitted grey sock at the foot of my bed (well it wasn’t just my bed, there was 4 of us sleeping in it, There would be my big brother Bobby in front and wee Willy behind, with me in the middle) and it always had an orange at the bottom of it.
One year in particular there was a wee doll. It had been made with a wooden close peg and a knitted dress. In fact with the latest carry on about John Sergeant leaving that dance show, his dance partner quite resembles that doll. (Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying she was wooden.) My home help Edna thinks it would be good for my hip replacement if I took up dance classes. I used to be well known in Glasgow for my tango, you know.

Anyway poor Gordon Brown hasn’t had an easy time either and oh my, sometimes he looks like someone has played football with his face ! What a sight he is for a reasonably young man – he even makes Cherie Blair look half presentable. Mr and Mrs Bush will have to find a new house in January ; I sometimes wonder if he deliberately let things get so bad that he could pick up a reposessed house on the cheap. It can’t be easy moving from that great big house, but I dare say our tenement lifestyle wouldn’t be for him. I hope Mrs Bush puts some name tags on his clothes, so that if he gets lost in a new neighbourhood he can be sent home. Edna has done that with my zimmer you know.

I see we have a lovely wee plant tub at the corner of Otago St and Gibson St. I just hope it doesn’t get vandalised as it fair brightens up the place. I haven’t heard if there is going to be the annual Christmas B.B.Q with mulled wine and mince pies in the back court this year, perhaps the credit crunch is even hitting the committee who look after the place ? I think they should organise getting the place done up with Christmas lights to cheer us all up. I saw a couple of people out the other weekend planting bulbs, I think it was that lovely May O`Cardy and her older brother who was helping her. May and I go back a long way, well at our age it is a long way!
I hear there has been fresh painting in the close at No. 5 West bank Quad and the couple in No. 3 have just returned from a swary in Singapore to celebrate. I think its someone 50th Birthday. Cant be bad, I was lucky if I got a week end in Rosthay every now and again, but I`m not grumbling.
Well have a lovely Christmas and a Happy New Year, who knows this time next year I could be used as fertiliser in the back court, we do like recycling round these parts.

~Spinster of this Parish