To anyone who reads this, may God bless us and grant us all a calm and peaceful new year.  ‘Calm and peaceful’ has a tendency to sound suitable to older people who are ready to have a quiet and may think a boring life but there is a lot of fun, friendliness, time for beauty and wonder to be had as well – let us not write off the noisier delights of life as being beneath our dignity!  With God’s help may we all enjoy a wonderful year of kindness in 2020, absolutely not forgetting to play our own parts no matter how small they might be. A smile costs nothing. . .