Christmas day started with the usual hot bread rolls for breakfast, washed down with Buck’s Fizz - a great way to start Christmas morning! In the background we had the Jive Bunny Christmas CD playing - yes, we DO own that CD and yes we DO play it! After breakfast, we sat around the Christmas tree and opened our presents.
Our Christmas tree... after Santa had been!
Lunch was the traditional Turkey with all the trimmings, but without the festive Brussels sprouts. Quite why anyone would want to risk spoiling a perfectly good meal with those I do not know! In keeping with tradition, whilst lunch was prepared, I had a whisky (or two) and Lynda opened the Sherry. A rather nice bottle of wine helped the Turkey dinner go down a short while later. Not bad going for one morning… Buck’s Fizz, whisky, Sherry and then wine.
Now, after the Turkey we hit a little problem. We still had Christmas pudding to face! I’m sorry to say that we didn’t get to eat it until the following day, as we were both too full of Turkey! It’s the first time ever that I’ve not been able to eat my Christmas pudding after my lunch - guess I must be starting to show my age! The afternoon was then spent in front of the TV trying not to fall asleep.
Boxing Day was a similar day to the day before. We had an extra hour or two in bed, got up and had breakfast, I went for a short walk to fetch the papers and then we sat in front of the TV and did nothing but eat and drink. Yep, we sure are predictable at Christmas.
This year's Christmas cake - made by Lynda using enough Brandy to put you over the drink/drive limit!
Thursday came around just a little too quickly for my liking and it was back to work. I spent most of the time carrying out an end of year stock take, eating chocolates that had been given to us by a supplier and wishing I was at home. I wouldn’t say we were quiet at work, more like dead!
This morning Lynda and I took a trip into Derby for a look around the sales. I’ve still not quite worked out where my sudden liking for shopping has come from but once again, I rather enjoyed it. I came back with a shirt, a scarf and a new leather jacket. Next weekend I may well go in search of cheap CD’s. If the right deal comes along then I’m also on the lookout for a laptop computer to use on a wi-fi connection around the house. That will have to be the right deal on the right laptop though!
So, that’s it for another year. All that is left now is New Year's Eve and all the food and drink that goes with it. We’ll be staying at home as usual and will no doubt be treated to a free fireworks display as the rest of the world goes firework mad at mid-night.
Ok I admit...I had to google Jive Bunny. You two are silly (that's a good thing). Here I m listening to Kathleen Battle Christmas music and you two are jazzing it up. I guess it's because I grew up around classical music. Lynda's Christmas cake looks delicious as I'm sure it was. She does a very good job making it look festive. Your tree looks beautiful too. We did not put up a tree this year but the up side to that is we don't have to take it all down and put it away again :o) I did decorate our china cabinet. It looked like a department store window display. The best part was we could close the doors and keep the cats out of the decorations.
ReplyDeleteAll this shopping has me worried about you Rich. Next you'll be getting manicures and wearing flamboyant outfits ;-)
I think shopping centers just know how to market and appeal to all sorts of consumers. With jazzy music in every shoppe and all sorts of products under one roof it kind of makes you feel like a kid in a candy store. And there you have it...you're just a big kid at heart :o)
xx~S