My relaxed Christmas Eve following a night shift didn't happen as I has to take delivery of my new sofa - It was quite exciting, but not exactly relaxing! I got the phonecall at nine, so didn't have chance for sleep. Did a mini-shop for bread and had phonecall from my lover early afternoon. I went to bed this afternoon, so of course now wide awake at one a.m. this Christmas morn!

I'm roasting my turkey overnight and smell is wafting nicely. I've not done all my house sorting, but did get around to the washing up so I won't awake to a pigsty! I've been listening to radio and doing puzzles this evening, while admiring my Christmas lights. I've just been playing Christmas carols and songs and enjoying my own company. Would be lovely to have my lover with me, but I do enjoy my own company.

my family will be around for Christmas dinner and tea (spot the working class roots!)and same again on Boxing Day. I'll enjoy having them here and looking after them and entertaining, but there is something rather lovely about them going away in the evening and having the quiet enjoyment of my home again.

Merry Christmas!

Polly
xxxx

I'd planned a very lovely early Christmas day to spend with my lover - lunch, presents and bed. And then I found out that the sofa I was expecting in the New year could be delivered Christmas Eve! And so part of our lovely alternative Christmas was spent manoeuvring one of my tatty sofas into the back garden, to make room for new one being delivered tomorrow - very 'Onslow' - just need a couple of scrap cars for the full effect...Shame I'd decorated my tree and put in front of patio doors before I remembered about sofa! Still - all went well and hopefully my new sofa will arrive tomorrow with minimum of fuss in time for Christmas and my visiting family.

I only put up my decorations this week, so still enjoying novelty and not bored of them. I enjoy twinkliness of it all. It was lovely celebrating Christmas with my lover and we both seem to have done well with choosing presents, which is always a bonus. had lovely day together and enjoyed my Christmassy house. He fed the birds while I was doing lunch so feasts all around. Despite the amount of magpies, gulls and grey squirrels that seem to be everywhere, I have regular visits from sparrows, tits, robin and pair of blackbirds as well as odd starling (I think that's what they are)

Collected my turkey and veg today. I'm doing night shift tonight, so won't be totally with it tomorrow/Christmas Eve, but (famous last words!) I think everything is now in hand for the actual day.

p.s. Damp and misty and miserable in Cardiff today, but I still have three cyclamen blooming in front garden and unripe strawberries were still surviving yesterday...

Can others see this ad for a silly bint adjusting her clothing in front of her computer, trying to look sexy and (I think) inviting people to find 'adult friends' in Cardiff in German!?
WTF?!

I'm allowed to be obsessed with the weather!
Tuesday morning I had to de-ice the car - made difficult because the boot lock where I keep de-icing stuff was frozen! Luckily I keep spare can of de-icer in house. Usually I have ice-scraper loose in car, but in a fit of tidiness I'd put in boot!
Anyway - Tues afternoon my lover and I were in my sunny back garden and I found another ripe strawberry, which he duly ate.
This is not a metaphor - just mad British weather!
I wonder if it counts as pathetic fallacy?