![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Christmas past...
Dec. 27th, 2009 04:05 pmAnother Christmas day gone and generally I had a very good time. :-)
The brother formerly known as Professional Reader made it from London on Thursday when I was at work, and we managed to finish at around 7pm. (We closed at just after 5pm but there's still the sale to set up for Boxing Day, and various things that can't be done while shoppers are still milling around getting in the way.)
The weather gradually improved here - no problems going over the hill to Winchcombe for the Christmas morning service - and we were back in plenty of time to get ready for Christmas lunch at around 1.30pm.
In our family we've always kept most present opening until after lunch - stockings first thing, and then everything else can wait. My gifts to others seemed to go down well, and I got a useful collection of things. A lovely warm Angora cardigan, which I was very much in need of and a very pretty cuddly toy (with a wheat and lavender bag for future toothaches ;-D). Ex Professional Reader gave me the Hornblower DVD set that I'd been eyeing at work for a while and no longer Perpetual Student gave me an expansion for the Carcassonne board game. :-)
We watched Doctor Who (and can't wait for the final part) and then played games - the Popular Culture edition of Trivial Pursuit, which for once at TP my Dad didn't win, Carcassonne and Monty Python Fluxx, a very silly game ;-D. All the while xPR had fun playing with the fire - we haven't had an open fire for a long time, but work in the garden had produced some excellent firewood and it seemed like a good opportunity for making use of it. We were also able to try some of his home made sloe gin - he's been taking advantage of his currently unemployed state to practice his foraging skills, and the gin was certainly well worth it.
I'm not back at work until Tuesday - Bank Holiday tomorrow - but I am working New Year's Day and Saturday this week, so I'm taking full advantage of my lazy days off. :-)
The brother formerly known as Professional Reader made it from London on Thursday when I was at work, and we managed to finish at around 7pm. (We closed at just after 5pm but there's still the sale to set up for Boxing Day, and various things that can't be done while shoppers are still milling around getting in the way.)
The weather gradually improved here - no problems going over the hill to Winchcombe for the Christmas morning service - and we were back in plenty of time to get ready for Christmas lunch at around 1.30pm.
In our family we've always kept most present opening until after lunch - stockings first thing, and then everything else can wait. My gifts to others seemed to go down well, and I got a useful collection of things. A lovely warm Angora cardigan, which I was very much in need of and a very pretty cuddly toy (with a wheat and lavender bag for future toothaches ;-D). Ex Professional Reader gave me the Hornblower DVD set that I'd been eyeing at work for a while and no longer Perpetual Student gave me an expansion for the Carcassonne board game. :-)
We watched Doctor Who (and can't wait for the final part) and then played games - the Popular Culture edition of Trivial Pursuit, which for once at TP my Dad didn't win, Carcassonne and Monty Python Fluxx, a very silly game ;-D. All the while xPR had fun playing with the fire - we haven't had an open fire for a long time, but work in the garden had produced some excellent firewood and it seemed like a good opportunity for making use of it. We were also able to try some of his home made sloe gin - he's been taking advantage of his currently unemployed state to practice his foraging skills, and the gin was certainly well worth it.
I'm not back at work until Tuesday - Bank Holiday tomorrow - but I am working New Year's Day and Saturday this week, so I'm taking full advantage of my lazy days off. :-)
