Light Update

Thought it was about time I wrote for you again.

Have been preoccupied with polar vortexes (cold and snow to you), our home here in New Hampshire, the horses and the breeding program, and friends and overseas visitors. BJ someone else you don't know is visiting with his wife Josie. It always has amused me that he shares his christian name with your surname. He was the first I knew with the name, long before you and the ex -  PM.

We have snow over here still, of course, but nowhere near as bad as it was a week ago. Still snowing, but we are prepared for the normal stuff and of course we enjoy it too. You know I am a country boy at heart, so I'm in my element. I'll attach some horse photos below. Mostly taken in the summer and fall of last year. They are all stabled now. Just a couple in the photos below:

This one is my main mount for trekking through the forest around here. In this photo, all saddled up and ready to go. All I had to do was mount up. Great day as I recall. I'm the one with the camera!

You were right. Some of us are very lucky, whether we make that luck or have it showered upon us. I guess I have had a sprinkling of both. On the one hand I am very successful in business, I write, which I enjoy immensely, and it too brings in the bucks. Then for leisure I have Florida, Australia and Europe, boats and fishing. So that satisfies my ex Navy persona. For relaxation friends, family and my art. Finally, but not the least in any way whatsoever, my beautiful wife. You could say I have it made...and you would be right.

We are coming over to the UK shortly for F's birthday, staying about 10 days before coming back here into February. Then we have some friends visiting from the UK who want to see the Keys.

Charlie (Charlotte) who manages our London Office, has made all the arrangements for our trips throughout 2014 out of Heathrow, including those to the Far East and Australia. So maybe I'll see you in Singapore, KL or Hong Kong sometime. Just joking...you rarely make it farther than Spain!  Jon who heads up the Florida Office has arranged all our US trips to California, Oregon, here and a few other places, although we take many more trips than that internally...some in our own plane. He's also responsible for Hawaii, South Korea, Japan and China.

Makes you think a bit doesn't it. All those mundane trips to Spain, occasionally interspersed with travel to a few, very few other places. Then there's your weekends...those are partly spent alone, like last week due to his obsession with soccer. Do you really think you made the right choice? I'd love to know. So for you it's around 9 years of weekends and for me 8 years of a full and happy family life, pretty much 24/7 - the way it should be.

You hesitated in early 2006...and made the wrong decision, as much out of fear as impulse. You can figure out what I mean by fear. Impulse - that was always your biggest downfall.

I guess you wonder why I still write these occasional missives - partly to point out what a big mistake you made, partly for 'old times' sake and partly....well you know why, if you really think about it deeply.


As usual, that certain person is enjoying some seafood :))

An Update

As the song goes:

Oh the weather outside is frightful

                           But the fire is so delightful
                        And since we've no place to go
                     Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

It's pretty bad out there, by all accounts, but we are at Cas and Liz's, all warm and cosy. Not exactly bumping into each other, as their home is 4800 square feet (446 square metres for you folks in the EU). We will make it to our home near Concord, NH next week I guess. Then in the Spring it will be that time again when we make plans for our trips to Europe and the UK.

I guess life is much the same for you. Weekday working, lunch with your girl friends and then that drive north as you do most weekends. After 8 years you must be tired of it. But then I sort of knew you wouldn't settle, and now it's a little late. I'm glad I found someone who wanted just that to marry and settle. The offer was there for you once. 

Now you are within about 2 weeks of your 60th. How time has flown. You were in your late 40's back then. Has your life changed, I wonder.... Mine has and how! Since you made your mistake all you have been able to do is alternate between insults, albeit indirectly, and envy. The latter supported by your allegations of flaunting. I agree with your accusation - I have flaunted mainly for your benefit. Last word is questionable as there has been no benefit for you, just a reinforcement of the mistake you made 8 years ago.

In some ways I am saddened that I left you behind to tread a mundane road in life and have to work into your sixties. Life has been, pretty much, very good to me. Not so with you. I still find it difficult to understand how you suffer his soccer culture 7 days a week. It would drive me crazy and other women I know. Guess you have no alternative though...not now.

Funny at one stage I thought we were on a road to spending life together, but it seemed you weren't ready if the evidence of your fleeting affairs was anything to go by. A case of short term pleasures exchanged for longer term love, security and a great life style. That love is still there although the flame is dimmed somewhat. Funny thing isn't it. Try as hard as one might it never quite goes away. In some small corner of my heart...

I thought I would flaunt just a little more and provide a degree of proof of our travels as shown in the picture below. You will probably be able to make most of it out. SIN by the way is the airport code for Singapore. I guess you will figure the rest out.

You always disbelieved me after we parted, but you are so very wrong. Part, I suspect, of your defense mechanism. If you deny it then it hasn't happened...except it has.

Final piece of news - we now have four grandchildren - Brad's wife gave birth to a son, recently. So, that's two boys and two girls between us. Life is very good....