New happiness thread right here.
Nickolarse is back from the West Bank for Christmas and he's just paid us a flying visit. He's loving teaching out there, he's completely in love with his new Italian girlfriend, he's helping to organise a free international music festival next summer and life is treating him extremely well.
He's one of my oldest and dearest friends (I've known him for seventeen years) and even though it makes me sad that he's not around anymore, I'm absolutely overjoyed that he's so happy with everything that he's doing. Doesn't matter what anyone may or may not get me for tomorrow, seeing him this afternoon is the best Christmas present I could have wished for