Christmas

It's passed midnight so it must be Christmas! Well have a good one wherever you are. If all goes to plan, the kids will get up at 7am (bets on that Isabelle who normally doesn't surface until 11am will forget she is a cool 12 year old and be first out of bed waiting to open the pressies).
7.15am after a cup of something hot and wet open a few and take the dog out and make a start on the dinner. We have go 20 coming for lunch, although some are minors and never eat what you give them anyway. They would be better off with a packet of crisps, a bottle of coke and a Fab lolly than eating proper food.
9am read all the manual for the latest gadgets and test my knowledge of the Korean language.
10am Off to Spott Church for the Christmas service. Yes Spott is a place and it is a nice spot. Truth be known, this sister church of Belhaven where we worship starts earlier, which fits better for the rest of the days activities. Plus it has a choir that does a few carols to make it feel like Christmas has arrived!
11am Emma's mum and dads for coffee with all the relatives. I say coffee...that usually follows various other drinks on offer. Most of which have some levels of alcohol.
1pm head home by foot or motor (depending on what tipples we have had) and start the dinner.
3pm Family arrive, more drinks, more food and eventually sit down and eat. I nicked a couple of tables from church to fit us all in. i also picked up a bale of hay for the guniea pigs. It had been used fo rthe nativity and was going to waste. Bargain!
5pm Washing up or recline to the back room with the men, but it depends on whether they bore me to death with credit crunch conversation or not. I have been known to wash things in alphabetical order to kill time whilst the 'what about these immigrants' conversation passes.
6pm Around about now it's the Dr Who special. Hopefully silence and even a snooze.
9pm and any time thereafter everyone goes and leaves us to it.

That's the plan, but anything can happen.

Happy Christmas!