Our Christmas Day

Our Christmas Day

No politics, no religion around the table. Only family that gathers on too few occasions and the return of a beloved one. Such a splendid meal generates too much clearing up but it’s all done now and I shan’t have to go downstairs and face a sticky kitchen...

Christmas Eve snapshot

  Cons: I need to catch up with the soup; the starter; the bread rolls; the stuffing; the bacony sausage things I worry about having under-catered for vegetarians I sound very croaky and my throat is still sore We have not been very generous with the giftage this...
Friendship and Bajirao

Friendship and Bajirao

I have been in a bad, sad mood all day because of Christmas rollocks and other reasons. It’s funny how little things build up all year like litter in a stream and generally you can fish them out and dispose of them but there are occasionally things you miss and,...
Christmas concert night

Christmas concert night

  It’s been an interesting evening comprising, as it did, the concert of my choir and MsDD’s BYCB band, and a session in the pub afterwards, when we were joined for a little by members of the OH’s band, who also did their concert in Beckenham...
Christmas begins

Christmas begins

I’ve wanted lights like these for ages but, like many, we have boxes and boxes of Christmas lights in our eaves cupboards, in our storage pod in various states of display and disrepair, and I didn’t like to buy any new ones. It’s all change this...