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Alice bought me this gorgeous peacock bauble this year!
I wish you all a happy and healthy new year and apologise for not being around for the past few days. We developed a fault on our land phone line just before Christmas and were told it couldn’t be repaired until the 28th December. Our internet gradually got weaker and weaker until it virtually disappeared but, as you can see, all is well again and we can communicate with our friends and relatives and I can find out what everyone else has been up to! I had got behind-hand with my blog and post reading even before we discovered the fault on the line because my daughter’s lap-top had to be repaired and so she borrowed mine. I don’t own a smart-phone and I couldn’t keep up!
I will be visiting all your blogs in the next few days and will be acknowledging all your kind comments too.
A Suffolk Lane 
Happy New Year. Don’t worry about the internet going down. I think everyone’s experienced that at some point :). Hope you had a lovely Christmas and hope the new year brings you happiness 🙂 ❤
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Thank-you Cat! Yes we had a lovely Christmas and I hope you did too 🙂 ❤
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Yes thank you 🙂 Very happy and looking forward to the new year both on and offline 🙂
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Beautiful decorations by the way 🙂
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Thank-you! ❤
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Those are beautiful decorations! Always glad to see your posts in my mailbox, whenever they come. December has been a hard month for many of us.
Happy New Year, Clare, and may 2017 be kind and generous at all. 🙂
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You’re so kind Lavinia 🙂 I hope that 2017 is a better year for you too ❤
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That bauble is to die for, Happy New Year and may your land line never give up again.
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Thank-you Susan! You made me smile! A happy new year to you too.
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Thank you Clare, and the same to you!
I’m glad to hear that your quietness was only the internet and not illness. A belated Merry Christmas to you and the family.
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Thank-you Allan. A belated merry Christmas to you and yours too. It has been a blessing in disguise as I have been able to catch up on other correspondence and I’ve had a few early nights too!
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I don’t own a smart phone either, Clare. I guess that makes us extra smart, eh? LOL! Honestly, I don’t want to keep up.
Oh my, your bauble from Alice is spectacular! I love the color.
Wishing you and your lovely family a peaceful and healthy new year! ❤
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Thank-you Jill! That blue is gorgeous isn’t it?! I hope you and yours are well and have had a blessed Christmas xx
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We did…thank you, Clare! xo
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The bauble and the nativity scene are beautiful. Wishing you much peace and joy in 2017, and lots of strength for when peace and joy are in short supply. 🙂
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Thank-you so much Ann! May I wish that back to you?
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Definitely!
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The decorations are very beautiful, and a Merry Christmas and Happy New Years to you and your family!
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Thank-you Jerry! I wish you a happy and healthy new year and every success in all you set out to do.
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A lovely bauble and crib scene. And in 5 days we’ll all be back to normal and everything packed away again 😦
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Hehe!!
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Happy New Year lovely Clare and I love your peacock bauble from Alice. I am starting to realise that smart phones are not smart for living life peacefully. Huge hugs for you and yours and here’s to a new year filled with many moments of joy. ❤ xXx ❤
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Thank-you my dear Jane ❤ I see those about me enslaved by their smartphones and I'm beginning to think I might be better off without one! However, I think I am getting one as a gift in the next few weeks 😮 I will see how I get on! I would like to think I could resist the urge to look at the phone every time I sat down 😀 Hugs and love to you and the hope that your new year brings you greater contentment xxXXxx
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Lovely Clare, that must mean it is your birthday soon…is it? I have news to share with you, but not on a public format. Can you drop me an email when you have a spare minute? ‘janeasturgeon@gmail.com’.. ❤ xXx ❤
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No – no birthday yet. Richard tells me he will buy me a phone as a gift soon 🙂 I will send e-mail in a few minutes xx
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xXx ❤
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Wishing you and your family a very Happy New Year, and warmest wishes for a wonderful 2017. X
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Thank-you! And the same to you too! xx
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Sometimes a little technological glitch can be a good thing, if you had more time for family and friends, and simply to enjoy the season! But I’m glad to see you back, too!
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Thank-you Kerry! I found it quite a liberating experience and got a lot of letters written. I had to put up with many moans and groans from my younger daughter and my husband who missed it more than I did!
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Happy New Year, Clare! I’m glad your connection is straightened out. (how dependent we are!)
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Thank-you Lisa! And a Happy New Year to you too! I am glad we are all connected again (the moans from the rest of the family were getting on my nerves!). I was more concerned about the lack of phone-line as our mobile phone signal here is very poor and I didn’t like to think we couldn’t contact anyone in an emergency.
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I’m way behind too! Great photos. Looking forward to your posts in 2017!
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Thank-you Simon.
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Happy New Year and I’m glad your communication problems are sorted 🙂
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Thank-you Andrea, and a Happy New Year to you too! 🙂
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no smart phone for me either – and my son has just asked to borrow the laptop! So glad you are back online x
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Yay! 😀
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Wishing you and your family a wonderful new year, Clare. And that’s a beautiful bauble!
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Thank-you Cynthia. I hope you and your family have a wonderful year too.
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Happy New Year my friend! I too have been away for a while but it is good to be back and see people still writing and being awesome. I look forward to to the coming year with you and it will bring.
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Thanks Ste!
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What a gorgeous peacock blue ornament – great photo too! Happy blogging in 2017 and look forward to following your adventures.
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Thank-you! I look forward to reading all your adventures too.
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Happy New Year! Your ornaments are beautiful. I’ve been away here and there too – the time just before Christmas is always such a crazy time. Wishing you lots of love, laughter, peace, and happiness in the new year!
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Thank-you very much Sheila and all the best to you too!
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Have a great and happy New Year too! Greetings!
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Thank-you – and to you too!
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