here’s our christmas:
we went to church first thing:
Mr Party plans an explosion and Kevin wears his hat well
puddings and pie (extinguished) and kezia with fairy wings
a little wooden train
our family. me with tanktop on left.
the last and final day of the advent calendar picture challenge – it’s a happy christmas
here are some people having a very happy christmas
after lunch with friends (the ones who were there, not the ones who weren’t) we went to the Crib service at church. jane was one of the leaders and played a mean guitar.
After that Jane went off to our sister church to do a repeat of service whilst i took the girls to the chip shop ! The chip shop wasn’t open so i did what any father would do and let the kids play in a deep bubbly bath for half an hour until it was open. we went back later with the girls in their pyjamas.
After a chips and chocolate supper, we brought esther’s duvet down and snuggled down to watched Chicken Run on the telly.
yeah for families and christmas !
we have some friends who seem to cancel at the last minute everytime we go to visit them. they have some good excuses, but i suspect they simply just don’t like us.
in order to break the cycle of not seeing them, they invited themselves to some other friends’ house so we could all meet up near where we live. unfortunately they cancelled (surprise surprise) but it was ok because we could eat more of the fantastic lunch provided by our host Tanya.
esther and catherine with the shepherds pie and profitable rolls
It was also the first opportunity to have some crackers. Tony bought them because they were half price. they were also unwrippable causing much mirth and merriment
day twenty four of the advent calendar picture challenge – it’s another wise man
here is the third and final wise man. it’s Alan who plays the Organ at church. he also works for a university which must make him very wise. and to prove the point he’s wearing a golden crown.
happy christmas everyone !
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you may be wondering who brother edd is. well he’s my brother and his name is edd. esther calls him brother edd too which is quite funny (in the same way that kezia calling me dave is quite funny).
here is esther and edd both wearing the blue wig. esther looks very shifty. brother edd looks normal.
well, i’ve opened my first christmas present and it was a good one. it’s from my grandma and is a pair of my grandfather’s old shoes. he never wore these shoes and one look will reveal why. they are white leather with a green and yellow trim, and a red tongue.
kezia said “look, daddy, christmas shoes” which is a nice concept. i look forward to dazzling people with them over the next few days.
a new photo for davescollections. i spent ages picking up the bits in marylebone high street yesterday evening. unfortunately i must have missed a piece !
here is kezia in her new coat, and later with an inflatable santa
day twenty three of the advent calendar picture challenge – it’s a pudding
here is my photo of a christmas pudding. it’s a satsuma. a festive fruit eaten here as a dessert:
crackers means crazy. all we really want from a cracker is the paper hat.
the bang, joke and toy are usually a dissapointment. i think crackers might be a peculiarly british thing. perhaps people will let me know.
jane sends some to france each year so a french family somewhere can enjoy the fun UK-style. it’s part of the EU’s crackers-for-foreigners campaign.
there is a competitive element to crackers of course. and we can all learn from this study.
here are our christmas crackers in a box. we can only dream of what might be in them. we’ll find out on thursday of course …
day twenty two of the advent calendar picture challenge – it’s a penguin (or maybe a duck)
and here are the pictures of a penguin by our christmas tree. the penguin has a ball bearing under it so it can mooth (a word i invented which is a combination of smooth and move) around in a non-penguin way.
you wouldn’t know to look at it which is why i mention it here.
ah – but now i discover the word mooth has already been used before
troubled with spam ? want to complain to the official body responsible for policing spam in the UK ?
if so, then you’ll want to print off this massive form and post it to them.
like how long is that going to take ? good to see they’ve got the hang of this modern technology thing.
there were no cups in the drinks machine this morning so it wouldn’t dispense. a very nice man came along and it turns out there were cups in there, but just not in the right place. these things happen occasionally apparently.
i complimented the man on his machine, because it’s the first drinks machine i’ve found which dispenses drinks of hot water which actually tastes nice. Usually selecting ‘hot water’ is just a pipe cleaning option which ends up tasting like old tea/coffee.
“how so” ? i asked. “here so” he replied and pointed to the dedicated hot water pipe (the white one on the right)
pete has featured widely just recently. the reason, of course, is because he is so blog worthy. he also enjoys seeing himself on the internet (he’s of that generation). hello pete !
i spotted him coming out the equipment room this morning wearing his blue house coat with pen in top pocket and a clip board. you don’t get much better than that.
i’m hoping he’ll get a pair of safety glasses for christmas to set the whole look off
yesterday was the shortest day. which is great if you are short. but why do we call it the shortest day ? it’s because the 21st December is traditionally the coldest day of the year and, as we all know – heat expands, cold shrinks. doorways everwhere will have reduced in size favouring the smaller in stature.
here is santa in a moses basket. kezia believes that if you look after santa on the run up to christmas then he’ll look after you on christmas day.
i got an email from Annie of the Going Underground Blog.
If you travel around london (or if you don’t) then you might enjoy her site
here is a Venn Diagram explaining this:
where area A is those that travel around london and area B is those that don’t travel around london.
i might have a new years’ resolution to do more venn diagrams.
