Well, that's it. Christmas and New Year done with for another
year. Only 356 shopping days until Christmas.
As is usual at Christmas, the air of 'National Emergency'
descended upon the country. Because the shops would not be open on Christmas
Day (although most were open again on Boxing day), the Great British public
began panic buying and hoarding and by 1200 on Christmas Eve, the local
supermarket had sold out of bread and nearly all vegetables!
Christmas was not the most peaceful of affairs as there is a pub
very close to where we live. Whilst I am all for people celebrating, some
people will use any excuse to get legless. I did have a bit of a sense of
humour failure when the pub had closed, but people were still out and about and
shouting at 3am! This explains why I was not the most awake of people when
Hannah woke me up at 7am.
Pressies were opened and that's when I realised that I'd made a
big mistake. Having bought m'Julie an iTouch, she now out-gadgets me and I want
one!
Boxing Day saw the arrival of my three kids and more pressie
opening before we had an afternoon of board games, and I proved that when it
comes to world conquest aka Risk, I can't be beaten!
The rest of the week was very relaxed and lazy, with Drew and
myself playing Resistance 2 although I did have to take Maggie and Hannah 'girly
shopping', even if m'Julie did oversee most of it whilst I drank coffee.
Midnight on the 31st saw us at home, seeing out what has been a
pretty crap year as far as I'm concerned and wondering what this year will
throw at us.
So, the kids are now back at their mother's and is less than a
week before I go back to work, and therefore get back to normal. Whatever
'normal' is...
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