Corner of solitude

Only six more days till new years, so how was your christmas day folks? Wonderful, stressful or just plain old dreadful? For me it’s always been dreadful, especially when I was a kid. But that’s only at the start of the day, as the day goes on it can only get better. And at the end of the day I find that I’ve enjoyed myself. Mingling with the relos, meeting new family friends, new members of the family, playing with the kids, bickering, laughing, talking, sharing stories and so on.

It all ends up as self discovery, because you find while you’re telling your story or little anecdotes that through out the year that you’ve changed, whether it was for the worse or for the better, it doesn’t matter, just as long as you have developed. And that’s why I love anecdotes, telling them or listening to them, I love’em all. Especially the funny ones. Unfortunately when I tell them they don’t come out right and aren’t very funny at all. Take the following anecdote of what happened earlier today for example.

My uncle was talking about how throughout the year he was into reading the history about the sutherland shire and the sailor it was named after, to one of our family friends who came over this year. The sailor’s name was Forby Sutherland, a crewman in Captain Cook’s ship the Endeavour. And as my uncle was droning on about it my older cousin Steph who is usually pretty switched on goes “…forby? Is that a piece of wood?” And everyone laughed, but she was wondering why. I thought it was pretty funny myself, so much so I was compelled to blog about it which is what I’m doing now. Anyway, everyone was about to tell her why everyone was laughing when her husband Greg beat us to it, “…you’re thinking of forbyfour…” as in four inches by four inches, the dimension of the wood.

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