Hi sylviatexas - glad everyone is enjoying the poem. Happy compost to all and to all a good garden. :-) Kris (Kringle?) Melissa Majora Gardens

LOL mtnfever! On the right is actually a piece of framing that had to come down from elsewhere, placed here on my dining room floor for the time being. Behind it is the stack of sheet rock hopefully being installed as we speak. Together it looks a bit like a stage in the middle of my dining room, now that I see it with fresh eyes. I see how it could be confusing! The photo is taken from my entrance, there are two stairs to get up to the main floor. To the left is the stairs and landing that head up to the second floor. The dining room is immediately to the right/front and the kitchen is WAAAYYYY in the back behind the big beam/bulkhead. Hope that perspective helps a bit! Thanks to all for appreciating my late night ode. Breezy, nice to see you have internet again, I know your kitchen is fabulous so seeing your "before" helps me have hope that this process may end one day in a functional and pretty kitchen! CEFreeman I hope you'll get your finished space sooner than later! You clearly have much more patience and tolerance than me.

Thanks for printing out the words here is the video that goes with it. Here is a link that might be useful: YouTube - A Different Christmas Poem

And I still pop in occasionally!! I'm still in York, as well. I still collect the Booker, but just didn't get round to listing it on here last year. Next year, promise. But you're right, Vee, my life doesn't have quite so much in the way of books these days. To be honest, since I've retired, I've not had so much spare time. Visiting and entertaining family and grandchildren (five), and looking after an old house and larger garden takes up a lot of our time. Then there's holidays, hobbies... I wonder sometimes when I had time to work, I really do :) But it's nice to see there are still a few of the old crowd here.