I woke up this morning to the sight of my sister sleeping peacefully in the bed next to me uncaring of the (lack of) dawn and the imperative to get up. Not for her the hauling yourself out of bed and wearily into the bathroom in the dark. I had somewhat reconciled myself to the fact of working today by the time I'd walked half way to the station ( Read more... )

Christmas eve was a lovely if slightly surreal experience on the religious front. This year is a once in seven years experience in that christmas eve is also the last sunday of advent. As a result I went to mass at 9:45am and was back for not exactly a repeat showing at 11:30pm for midnight mass ( Read more... )

At work today there was a simultaneous determination to enjoy the season combined with the the determination to do as little real work as possible and a sense of doomed daydreams of being at home instead of stuck at work ( Read more... )

My brother is due home tommorow if the fog doesn't keep him flying round heathrow like a dog tied to a pole ( Read more... )

I've finished my christmas shopping today. Yay! I think anyway. I nearly forgot an uncle (the priest uncle) but I'm there....

I went in search of racing grannies for my cousin who works at Janes and has that sort of sense of humour. I went to Presence only to find they'd sold out. I ended up going to BHS, Woolys and WH Smith to find them, and when ( Read more... )

I got some christmas cards today ( Read more... )

Well that's another OAPs out of the way and this year I just feel like I hope there won't be another. We probably did the minimum amount of organising, possibly a little too little but never mind. The worst problems were that networkguy couldn't get hold of a santa suit and at the end there was no broom to sweep up with. Other than that it went ok ( Read more... )

....and then I'm going to spend tommorow helping to run a christmas party for old dears with rotaract. Argh. And I haven't achieved more than 1 1/2 christmas presents for friends and family.... no wait I got a few more the other day at the british museum... that's not so bad ( Read more... )