Saturday 12th December 2009

We have the annual event of getting together with my brother John, and his wife Sharon. We raid the Indian Cooking blog again for meal ideas, and a good night is had by all. Since my brother lives about fifteen minutes walk from my home, and we get along perfectly well together, the innocent among you may wonder why it is such a big deal to meet up and socialise. This is just the way our family is. I have two brothers, we all get along fine. Everyone who meets us even remarks on the fact that we are so similar. But on average we probably speak on the telephone to each other about twice a year, and actually meet face to face about once a year. There is (almost) an excuse with brother Brian, since he lives about 300 miles away, but since John lives about 1 mile away, it is very hard to think of a plausible explanation, other than our eccentricity!