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...