December 14th - In the Bleak Mid-Way

     There are many Christmas carols that are so upbeat, quickly paced and exciting to sing, In the Bleak Midwinter is not one of those songs. I've not really heard it until coming to England, and until this season it hasn't registered with me. At times it does feel like the bleak midwinter here, dark by 4:00 and often drizzle or rain, ya it doesn't always feel festive at times. But in the midst of bleakness comes days like a couple of saturdays ago when I was able to play 18 holes of golf with Merv, Andy and Dave (btw I had my personal best of 108 and Andy fired an 89). The bleak midwinter had turned into one bright sunshiny afternoon that wasn't even that cold. These breaks in the bleakness are very welcome and the when the sun shines with gusto it is fabulous. Such the way with good news it is like the breaks in the clouds, it is very welcome.
     We have had some breaks lately which of course are very exciting. Firstly we had some rough news that you'll know about from our last post when we found out that we would have to move out of our gorgeous house here in Overton. The date given to us was while we were to be in Indiana, that date has now been changed to be the end of March, so we'll be back in Hampshire for 3 weeks or so before having to move. What a blessing that is to have more time and to not have to move while we are not in the country. Then after having that good news we procured airline tickets last night too. We've been looking for a while but hadn't pulled the trigger yet, thankfully we hadn't or we'd have been sweating bullets waiting to hear back from the estate agent that the date has changed. As it turns out we are flying out of Heathrow on the 6th Feb and into Midway not O'Hare, those of you from Northern Indiana and Chicagoland know how great it is to not have to deal with O'Hare, and for those of you from London area you know how easy it is to fly from Heathrow rather than Gatwick. Small things I suppose but desirable none the less. So we'll be in the Goshen area for the month of February, personally I think a great time to be there, I love winter and hey we'll be there for Sectionals too, how amazing is that. There you have it some warmth of good news right in the bleak midwinter.