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Christmas

Posted on December 26th, 2007 admin View Comments

We have spent a lovely Christmas together. Yesterday, we all went to Graeme’s parents’ for Christmas dinner and then onto mine for tea. The children received so many wonderful presents it was difficult to get them into the car at the end of the day :O)
It then took Graeme 2hrs to build Disney castle for Alice! Dan felt ill and fell asleep on the sofa, which meant that he had a (dry) night in pants. He was, however not well all night – burning up and got up at 5.00 am (with Graeme) and he has continued to be not well all day (maybe he’s getting his last teeth – his cheeks are on fire).
This morning, Graeme constructed a Disney kitchen – what an amaxing man he is! (Maybe he’ll build me a castle and kitchen one day).
Grandmas, Grandads, Great-grandma, Christina, Jon, Esther and Theo came to tea this afternoon and the children enjoyed playing together. It was fun.
Now it’s Boxing Day evening, children have been bathed, the Simpsons are on and we (I) look forward to Pirates of the Caribbean 3 when the kids are in bed.
Ahhh…fun times.

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Merry Christmas

Posted on December 24th, 2007 admin View Comments

Couldn’t resist this lovely picture that I found…

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Nine Readings and Carols

Posted on December 16th, 2007 admin View Comments

As Christmas approaches the trips the Church become more frequent and those of us with small children spend our time a) breaking up fights between over-tired and over-excited siblings and b) seeing how many times we can see Santa. Today was one of those days.
Lunchtime saw us at my parents’ for lunch, followed by carols round the Christmas Tree in Carlton (or rather carol) and a visit from Santa who gave out presents (to all children whose parents / grandchildren had handed presents in at the village Post Office the week before!). It was very nice despite the cold and mud and Santa arriving a carol or 3 too early )
This evening involved more Christmassy things. I had been invited to sing at Redmarshall’s carol service. They have a lovely Saxon (I think) Church so, I took Alice and the two of us plus Mum, Dad and Grandma squashed into the old-style pew that have a gate on the end to lock us in and I sang the beautiful “Stille Nacht” unaccompanied during the service. Everyone seemed happy with my performance. The service was followed by mince pies and wine (a concept I find difficult to come to terms with, being a good Methodist girl myself).
The funniest part of the evening came when I went to drop Dad off at their house, while Mum took Grandma home and he didn’t have any house keys with him ) He came back to ours, as I wouldn’t let him go in the shed until Mum got back. (Secretly, I think he wanted to have a quick trip to the pub!)
Graeme’s now at the gym and I’m enjoying watching the gorgeous Heath Ledger in “A Knight’s Tale” before I have to get up to go to work tomorrow while everyone else in the family is on holiday (

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Christmas Party

Posted on December 15th, 2007 admin View Comments

Well it’s the weekend again and Friday brought another Christmas Party. This time it was our staff do in Stockton. I must admit that I wasn’t that keen to go, since my friends were ill and couldn’t go. However, I was persuaded to go and it wasn’t as I thought it would be. The food was not good but the dancing and company were. We had a good dance and that’s the most important thing! I even talked to some staff I didn’t know before so that was a bonus.
I left at about midnight because I’d got bored by then, so I’m afraid I just snuck out without saying anything – I’m sure that nobody would have noticed.
One thing that was really nice, however, is that one of the members of staff who came to my podcasting training in November has put down podcasting as his CPD project for the year so I feel that it was a great success )
We’re doing Christmas decorations to day and just spend over £80 (!!) on 2 trees and reindeer and sleigh outdoor light thingie at a local well-know garden centre known as …Parrot’s due to Dan’s great pronunciation of the words )

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