Merry Christmas And a Happy New Year

In keeping with the Ilsley family tradition, we will again be having Christmas eve dinner instead of Christmas day lunch this year. Last year we hosted a dinner for 22 people at #44, the year before that it was held at Mark and Sharon's house and this year we will all be going to Paul and Cathy.
Dylan, Wendy and Leah will be driving down from Mossel Bay to spend Christmas in Cape Town. I am looking forward to spending time with "little princess" again. I will be going on leave on Friday 14th December, 2007 and will be returning to work on 21st January, 2008. During my leave (around 6th January), Lloyd and I will be driving down to Mossel Bay to spend 3 or 4 nights with Dylan & family - hopefully they would be settled into their new accommodation by then. This will probably be the last post for the year, so I will take this opportunity to wish all family, friends and other visitors to this blog, a very "Merry Christmas and a prosperous 2008".

God grant you the light in Christmas, which is faith;
the warmth of Christmas, which is love;
the radiance of Christmas, which is purity;
the righteousness of Christmas, which is justice;
the belief in Christmas, which is truth;
the all of Christmas, which is Christ.
- Wilda English