Christmas Day

Christmas Day... Began with Beth bringing Lorraine and I a cup of tea in bed, which was rather spiffy. She said she had been up since eight. All down for breakfast, scrambled eggs and salmon. Then opening presents. All rather fun, and a good deal of rustling of paper. Beth and James being the Christmas Elves.  I got excellent presents, a beautiful green scarf, ear phones that don't poke into your ears, a book of an interesting local artist, new gym socks (my current gym socks are AT LEAST 30 years old). Everyone cheery. Also sipping wine that Mum and Mase brought. 

Chatting with Mum this morning before they made off to the Waggon and Horses for lunch -- and then I called her again in the evening with Lorraine. Toby still stuck in Canada.

Meanwhile in Seaford people hard at work. In men much preparation of Christmas Dinner with three generations Maureen, Lorraine and Beth at the kitchen table, preparing sprouts watching The Snowman and sipping Prosecco. Pat drafted in too.  James peeling potatoes while watching bicycle racing on his phone, before going out for a run. I laid the table and seemed to be constantly doing stuff for hours.  

When our dinner was ready it was delicious... We had turkey, pigs in blankets, two types of stuffing, roast potatoes and parsnips, special sweet red cabbage, stoved Brussels sprouts and carrots, steamed leeks and beans, mushrooms and sage (a PK pleaser) and home made cranberry sauce. And Christmas pudding for afters all washed down with wine. 

A certain amount of slumping after dinner -- and we watched The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse which was nicely animated. Lorraine had used the book to base some assemblies on at school and Beth loves it. 

Lorraine and I played cards with Beth and James in the evening, and Lorraine and I sloped off to bed.

Below a post breakfast shot, Lorraine and I with part of our real tree, the diners and the dining room with the artificial tree