I think, for the first time ever, we awoke to snow of Christmas Day.  As Guys Mum and Dad were coming over from the farthest reaches of Huddersfield, we were glad there had been no fresh snow overnight, but just a blanket from a week of heavy and good quality “snowman  building” snow.

The house looked a bit sparsley decorated this year, as we decided not to put any decorations out below the saftey height of 4ft…for fear of general shredding and manglement.  As it was, the tree nearly came down several times and the baubles were frequently re-arranged (all onto the same branch usually).  Every bauble that was removed was accompanied with the exclamation “Oh No!” from Sophie, as if she was surprised it had come off after yanking it off the tree! Pic evidence provided.

With just the three of us in the morning, we started opening presents – well, Sophie started opening her presents.  She opened Auntie Rachels present first – a Duplo set with horses and a stable.  After that, she just wanted to play with the Duplo and present opening resumed on Boxing Day when Chessy came to visit.

For once, we had a traditional Christmas lunch – Turkey (from the sherry toting butcher), roasties, parsnips, etc etc… Guy cooked and it was very scrummy indeed.  This year Sophie joined us for lunch, rather than sleeping through most of it like last year.  Sophie throughly enjoyed having her christmas orange squash in a plastic party wine glass and cheers’d everyone who came within 4 ft of her for the entire meal.

So, thanks to modern technology we linked up with absent friends – Helly, Mum and Dad in the Big Little Sister diary room in Norwich and then later on to our New Zealand lovlies.  We were treated to much nudity from the NZ contingent, firstly with a naked Lucy Locketori running around, followed by a bare bottomed Emmie flashing past then a super pair of floury baps from Hosie. Stevie was the only one not to flash us…I guess it was too early on NZ Boxing Day for naked BBQists!

We finished the night by watching Catherine Tates Old Lady doing a christmas carol, which included a significant proportion of her effing and jeffing then crawled in to bed, completely knackered!