We’ve eaten chocolates, nuts, jelly babies and Christmas dinner, we’ve imbibed beer, wine, sloe gin and the occasional soft drink, we’ve played games and at least two of us (four if you include the dogs) have been on a couple of longish walks. The company that remain are slumped in front of the TV watching “EastEnders”, and so I have retired to the study for some peace and quiet, and, more importantly, to wish you all a very Happy Christmas.
Matthew, Simon and Kate joined us for dinner last night, on Christmas Eve, before Chantal went to meet Steven and Sherry’s train from London. We all had a lovely evening chatting and playing “Best of British” board game. Personally I was enjoying carols and suitably festive music on Classic FM in the background, but my radio went strangely silent within minutes of Chantal returning with Steven and Sherry…..
Matthew stopped over, and he and I went on a dog walk this morning before we all opened presents. Matthew left just before dinner to visit a friend in Peterborough, Dad is in Bradford with my sister Ros, Ian, Svitlana and baby William are with Andree, and so just four of us gathered for the traditional beef and turkey at lunchtime – a wonderfully stress free number as far as Chantal is concerned.
Simon and Kate joined us for more present opening and a game or two this afternoon (they have given Chantal and I another version of UNO – we must have six varieties of this game by now!
Father Christmas has been generous – we’ve had lots of presents, some consumable, some playable, and I’ve had a lovely Christmas jumper from Bridget and Megan. Father Christmas generously subsidised an i-pad for me, and despite the limited time to play with it, I’m starting to get to grips with the Apple Alternative Technology.
Tomorrow the granddaughters arrive in force, all four of them, and as they are bringing their parents with them, we will have a houseful for a couple of days, although I will be leaving them all in the afternoon to visit my sister and her family in Kettering – Simon has volunteered to drive, and so I will be able to enjoy a glass of wine or two!
I was hoping to add a couple of photos to this post, but as they were taken on various i-phones, and no-one seems sure how to make the i-phones talk to my PC, the photos will have to wait for now.
We hope that you are all having as nice Christmas as we are. Seasonal Greetings to All!
Technically we live in Oaktree House, but sadly the tree had to go.
We now have a thriving Oakstump at the front of the house.
