I felt fortunate to have that extra event slotted in to the week between Yule and Hogmanay. Pleasant surprises are very welcome. We had an easy Hogmanay plan of an invitation to Kenny and Helena’s and before it a walk with Cath and Michael. I had never noticed this statue of St Francis near them before, oddly sited beside a park in a school playground, though it is the grounds of.Catholic school, the school is St Peter’s, not St Francis.