Girl now seventeen and a day.

Tuesday 10th March 2009.

I know I'm an absolute disgrace! It feels like ages since I did my last blog, I've been very busy though.
It was my birthday yesterday and the night before that I went out for a meal with all of my friends.
Tonight my Nan and Granddad came over for dinner, that I slaved over in the kitchen for a couple of hours before they came! I use the word 'slaved' relatively loosely. Anyway the dinner went well, you'll be glad to hear, and we all had a very pleasant evening.
I did have a little ponder upon something though.
It never ceases to amuse me how my grandparents act together. I could never imagine one of them without the other. They finish each other's sentences, literally, all the time and all of the annecdotal stories they tell are always told in character by my Nan with Granddad filling in with the narrative. It is quite funny to watch but also very... nice.
When it comes to marriages and relationships there is so much difficulty. Even in what I've experienced in my few years, so I can't imagine what it's like after a whole life of it. But even after all the hard times that they have inevitably gone through it is just plain and simply 'nice' to be able to see two people together after over fifty years and still be able to bear each other's company and still be in love. Obviously it is a completely different type of love to anything I may or may not know about, but nevertheless it still remains strong.
It is nice sometimes to be able to have that little flickering reminder that somethings in life are simply nice and have a good ending.

In comparison to that I really don't like the ending of Tess of the D'Urbervilles, that is most definitely not a plain and simple nice ending. Although I don't think I'd respect that book anywhere near as much as I do if it had been your typical Happy Ending. The sadness simply ignighted the realism of it.

Girl now seventeen and a day.
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