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Ghosts of Christmas Past

“The most Christmassy feeling in the world, is when you give somebody a gift you know they will always remember.” Robin – Ghosts 2023 Christmas Special

Ghosts have gone, we knew the end was coming, but how was it going to end?

Well, spolier free, they went out in the best possible way. Completely in the spirit of the show, and perfectly. No questions left hanging, and no regrets. And what a call, to go out with the Christmas Special!

The leading quote from Robin is almost the last dialog from the episode, and yes they have managed to give us a gift that we will never forget. It is almost as good as the last scene of Blackadder Goes Forth from 1989. Everyone that has sees that still gets the chills, and never forgets.

Nice Things

“When you do something nice for somebody, forget it immediately. When someone does something nice for you, never forget it.”

Lesson from Jim Haynes – The Guardian

The hobby is dying …

It interesting sitting across multiple hobbies / interests and seeing the parallels and difference. In this case dog showing and railway modelling. Both have their fair share of deep thinkers

Mike at OST Publications, one of the model railroaders who seems to look at things in a different light, just blogged this:

The hobby is dying and no one cares anymore. It’s a crisis and we need to act NOW!
Say this often enough and it will become your reality.
The hobby is thriving and the opportunities are unlimited.
Repeat this enough times and you will begin to see those opportunities and maybe even act on one.
Your reality, your choice.

Mike @ ostpubs.com

Sorry Mike, you had already boiled that post down to the absolute essence of the matter, there’s no room to just skim a morsel out of it!

Could this possibly apply to dog showing? Of course it can, we hear enough of the crisis mode not too much of the “opportunities” mode. We were helped and encouraged into the community and hope that we can do the same.

Monty Corgi Garden

Reckless

What does it taste like? It tastes like not giving a shit with a hint of recklessness.

Delicious S03 E02

Delicious.S03

We Are Not Broken

Sister Monica Joan steals the show again (s7 e8) with this apposite moment:

We are leaping into grief as if we had embraced it as a form of recreation. We are not what we have lost. We are not what has been taken from us. You are all too willing to embrace the void. If you do not cherish what remains you will all become as nothing. You will be nothing. We are not broken. We are each as whole as we will ever be again. And in the end when we cease to be we will all become memories.

As usual Sister Monica Joan, the character with the most clouded vision, cuts through the confusion with the greatest of clarity.

Sister Monica Joan