Christmas is definitely coming…
Things are looking up in the Scott household. Ian grows stronger daily, and this week managed to walk to the shop and back without looking grey and half-dead.
The Christmas cards are written and posted, and with my new pink laptop (an early Christmas present to myself – and yes, the colour is important!) I was able to mail merge and thus run off typed address labels, which made life hugely easier.
On a sadder note, it’s our next-door neighbour’s funeral tomorrow. I’m taking it, and am pleased to be doing so since it feels like one last thing I can do for him. He was the best neighbour you could ever hope to have; we would often come up from Pulham on my day off to find the grass had been cut, the bins put out, and on one occasion after a holiday, the patio had been pressure washed and the front step beautifully repaired. We’ll all miss him in this Close.
For us, Christmas starts tomorrow when our youngest daughter returns from Belgium and will be staying until January 4th. On Monday a group of us from the Close and some friends are all going to the Thursford Christmas Spectacular. This is an amazing Christmas show, put on in a tiny village in North Norfolk and attracting thousands from all over the country and beyond. It’s a unique mixture of sacred and secular, and is a truly stupendous sight. As we used to live near Thursford we went every year in the early days, but since moving away hadn’t been for years. Last year we were offered a couple of tickets and loved the show so much that I immediately bought tickets for the Close. The shows are so popular that you need to order tickets in January for the following Christmas in order to get good seats.
I have two carol services coming up in which the choir is involved, then on Christmas Eve am helping out at the midnight service, before an early rise next morning to get the turkey in the oven.
It’s a family occasion. Our son will be coming on Christmas Day, then during the following week we’ll all troop over to older daughter’s to have another Christmas with them (and this after granddaughter’s sixth birthday on Saturday. She’ll be high for weeks.)
All in all, a great time. I love Christmas.
October 15th, 2012 at 11:48 pm
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