Never at the Cutting Edge

I always like to wear my learning lightly 🤣🤣! In a more serious vein, I am very likely to be wearing something comfortable rather than something fashionable or sharp. Give me a sweatshirt or a jumper over anything that would be counted as ‘dress to impress’.

At this point in the year I love the fact that I can wear Christmas jumpers for a whole month. They lift my mood and I love their colours and designs. I wore a new Christmas sweatshirt last night when I went with my daughter to watch Love Actually on the big screen in London. It was a Love Actually themed sweatshirt that I love. It’s a quote from the film that anyone who knows it will recognise – Eight is a lot of legs, David!! My daughter got it for me because watching Love Actually is a family tradition that started in 2004 when I took the film out of the video shop in Jannali, New South Wales because I needed something Christmassy. To say I enjoyed it from the first few seconds would not be an exaggeration. The following year, I had bought our own copy, and every year since I have watched the film, initially with Janet and then, as the children started staying up a bit later, with the whole family. I know every joke before it lands but still love them, I know every emotional moment but still get affected by them and I just adore the scene when Sam runs through the airport to tell Joanna that he loves her. Having a sweatshirt is just another example of the way that this one film defines my Christmas.

I say I don’t favour anything smart, but that’s not always the case. I bought a dark green suit back in 1987 for my best friend’s 21st birthday. It cost me a large amount of money at the time, well into three figures, but nearly 40 years on it’s still in my wardrobe and still makes the occasional appearance as I fit into it as well now as I did then! It is a suit that is full of memories of people, places and parties. I love the fact that I still have it.