Chritmas Eve,

Christmas Eve started early for us, after our lovely evening at The Crown with wonderful friends, we toddled of about 1am and landed in Buckleys, I know the shame, I think we lasted about 40 mins before we dragged our sorry arses up the hill to bed, but not before My Beloved had demolished two ham sandwiches and a couple of paracetamol, obviously the paracetamol were preventative.

8 am arrived with the beginnings of an aching head, so I rolled out the bed doused it with water, the head not the bed and went back to sleep, hello 12pm best we get up then, a coin was tossed and I won, My Beloved has to walk down for the car.  Probably should have gone myself, because by the time he arrived home he was walking like a man with one leg. Apparently he had to stop quite a few times on the way for the car, due mainly to the fact that his metal had siezed causing him to not be able to swing his leg. So if anyone saw a relatively young man mid afternoon holding onto anything that would take his weight, no he wasn't pickled just polaxed. Unfortunatley pickled and polaxed look the same on My Beloved.

The sunny climate of Israel can't come soon enough for Metal Mickey, at least there I wont have to defrost him on a radiator everytime the temperature drops.

We collected the Little Princes around 2pm and so the excitement of Christmas has well and truely begun, parcel wrapping and tag writing commenced and should be finished sometime around June. We visited some lovely friends today to return a memory card for a camera loaned to me last night, I just couldn't figure out why my camera wouldn't work, until I realised I had left the memory card sitting in the computer at home.  Sarah to the rescue, and snaps were taken, happy memories of lovely friends on a very special night.

I managed a little Facetime with the family down south today, My Great Neice in her Santa's Helper outfit, smiling and laughing at the camera, her Mummy holding her, her Daddy filming her and My Sister on her hands and knees cleaning, I'm hoping she is coming to me before the end of the night, I've a list as long as my arm of things she can do, its only fair, she has done theirs, she should do mine.

So far this afternoon we have managed E.T, and The Sound of Music, and I think it could be an evening of the Grinch again. I love Christmas, and can't wait for Tomorrow morning, as long as its not too early.

Merry Christmas to all our Relatives, Friends and Neighbours, I hope you have a Lovely Christmas Day and your bellies are full and the speeches short.