The flight never to be forgotten. 28/12/2016

I have been on countless flights, some good, some bad, some indifferent. But the two or so hour journey from Heathrow to Vienna on 21st December 2016 that began at 12.45,will remain with me for ever. Never in my life have I experienced a flight like it.Beneath a blanket cloud on the horizon the sun as far as the eye could see. Are we floating? Yes, that's it, we must be floating. And it does not seem to end. Is Heaven our destination? Then after almost two hours we nose dive into a thick nothingness,grey fog all around. Is it the fog moving or the plane? Seven minutes of descent. And then the lights of Vienna below us. The most divine,exquisite,beautiful flight to be remembered forever and a day.

I have been very,very busy the past week

writing messages to all the men who had contacted me through the dating site,wishing them Merry Christmas and success in private life.I thought it was the right thing to do before removing all details about myself.This morning the task was completed,I never counted how many messages I had sent, but it was a lot.I am on the site no more.

Have dealt with the last, 37th letter.

I was,in fact quite surprised that there were so few of them after 3 weeks away,often there are 50 at least after 2 weeks, once I counted 70.And as much unsolicited mail.The most important letter of all from the Inland Revenue was the first to be opened and I had the most wonderful surprise - a tax refund that had already been paid into my bank account.I fully understand why businessmen or professional people hate taking holiday and why so many marriages crumble.One often feels irreplaceable and the work becomes all consuming,the children rarely see their father, a wife seeks solace with someone who gives her the attention she craves.The more resentful the wife becomes the longer the husband stays at work.If she is self-sufficient,and many are, and has interests of her own and is content to spend a lot of time alone, the husband comes home to a happy wife.A little compromise goes a long way.In a solid marriage every-one thrives.But this is an ideal situation and we do not live in an ideal world.