Perfect Poise, Perfect Life
Bring your body into balance and revolutionise your life
By Noel Kingsley
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Owning up

George Washington and his father

I have an embarrassing admission to make. It happened at the weekend.

With such wonderful autumn colours in the leaves this year; yellows, browns and reds all glowing in the autumn sunshine, we took a walk through Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park on Sunday especially to enjoy the radiance of it all. We finally ended up in Knightsbridge so we had a little look around the shops. After a quick visit to Harrods, we moved on to Harvey Nichols and then to Peter Jones on the Kings Road for lunch in their Bistro. OK, so what's wrong or embarrassing about all this?

Well, if the truth be told (and when would I never tell the truth?), as the six year old President-to-be George Washington said to his father when asked if he'd chopped down his favourite Cherry Tree, "I cannot tell a lie, father, you know I cannot tell a lie!" (story)......We bought some Christmas presents at the weekend. Yes we did.

I know it's only mid October. And while I'm in flow of admitting things.....I bought another one last August! There....I've said it now.

OK, yes it is rather sad; indeed it's axxx, but there is a good reason why I gave in to temptation. There it was; sitting on the display was the very thing that I thought my brother would like for Christmas so rather than leave it till mid December it seemed to make sense to make life easy. And we did similarly for my sister-in-law too.

When the time normally comes for buying Christmas presents, the shops are madly busy, there is less choice and they're running out of stock; the very thing that we'd thought of as a good idea for a present earlier in the year has either miraculously become unavailable or the idea has completely slipped my mind. Now I've got their presents, those are a few less to worry about nearer the time. Now I'm feeling smart.

Another thing about this.....Wrapping presents a few minutes before they're opened seems like such a crazy thing to do; no sooner is the wrapping on than it's being torn off again. Wrapping them early can bring an extension to the period of anticipation. "What can it be?" lasts for longer... If I wrap them early enough...say a few months ahead, when it comes to them being opened, they won't be the only ones wondering "what can it be?" as I will probably have forgotten myself, so we all get a surprise! Don't worry; I haven't gone this far yet. I'll let you know when I do....

:-)

Posted by Noël on October 22, 2007 2:54 PM | Permalink