<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/xmas-lightsdec16.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-4123" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/xmas-lightsdec16-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a>It's over a week since my last online scribbling so on a gloomy, windy afternoon I find myself at the keyboard trying to put some of my thoughts in order.

Firstly thank you to all who have sent me cards and good wishes for the festive season. As you all know it's a year since Jane went into the hospice and we entered the toughest period of our lives together. I'm slowly moving on and I'm a lot tougher now than I was six months ago so it's true what they say that time is a great healer. I'm surrounded by really caring friends and that has helped me so, so much.

<a href="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/sonos-playbardec16.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-4132" src="http://pigyard.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/sonos-playbardec16-300x125.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="125" /></a>And onto more positive things. I've bought myself a new <a href="http://www.sonos.com/en-gb/shop/playbar.html#features">Sonos Soundbar</a> for Christmas which matches the other Sonos sound systems that are sitting on the network. All of them are controlled from either my phone, tablet or desktop computer. They are the best gadgets I've ever owned with excellent sound reproduction and the user interface is so intuitive. The soundbar superbly enhances the TV sound and now that I'm watching more films on Amazon Prime I get a full cinema effect - which reminds me I'm part way through <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816692/?ref_=nv_sr_1" target="_blank">Interstellar</a> so I'd better get back to it...

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Merry Christmas to you all...