Swinging the pendulum of my LJ back to my other main topic, we're having Christmas at home for the first time since having kids and only the second time ever in my adult life. I have mixed feelings about this (negatives are largely to do with it being more work) but on balance am looking forward to it. I'm particularly looking forward to cooking ( Read more... )

What I cooked today (with some scullery-maid type help. And some hindrance from LB who wanted to be in my arms whenever he could see me, still ill, poor mite):

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I have not been having much fun recently (nothing major, just a surfeit of illness, night-wakings, work and clearing up pee, and concomitant shortages of sleep, patience and ingenuity for toddler-wrangling). Today was particularly grim ( Read more... )

Some people might consider it a bit barmy to have made a Christmas pudding today in our current circumstances.  Especially after a night like last night which was so terrible that it came out the other side into comedy.  I actually laughed (perhaps a little hysterically) as LB threw up all over my duvet at 5.30am, having been awake since midnight ( Read more... )

This is my grandmother’s nativity scene, which my mother gave me last christmas:


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