Christmas 2025

Merry Merry Christmas!

We started the festive week, driving down to Lifton in Devon, to meet up with my side of the family. With mum now in a wheelchair, and dad not having to drive so far, it's a good meeting point. So we enjoyed a nice lunch and did the present swap and headed home.

To then do the same thing the following day (Monday) but a little closer to home, in Wells. Again with the need for disabled access, we all met up in Spoons!! We were missing a few...Freya and Ned were still working but it was lovely to have a catch up with everyone and hear their news.

And that was the social gathering done for another year.

Just the four of us for Christmas.

I remember the first year it was just the four of us. I think Granny was poorly, which meant mum and dad stayed to look after her. I'd always hosted Christmas, living in the boarding schools, we would make use of the extra space and to me, Christmas was loads of people. Christmas wouldn't be the same with just the four of us but it was actually really lovely and so we have carried on doing it, partly through circumstances and partly through choice.

Christmas eve eve!!

The final food shop and....

(8am in Sainsbury's)

....annual fridge tetris!!

The Christmas crockery and tablecloths located....

....and the indulgent, calorific brownies made!

Always have to watch Love Actually every year!!

Enjoying the stillness x

Christmas Eve!

And a walk to blow away the cobwebs.

We've had so much rain. It's worth making use of any dry weather. 

An easterly wind has arrived. It's now dry but bitterly cold.

Back home to an afternoon of games and...

...jigsaws.

Veg prep en famille!!

And the Christmas Eve tradition of a sausage roll wreath for tea.

Stems back to the days when I had to work on Christmas Eve, quick and easy!

And now, a non negotiable 

Bridget Jones film to end the day.

Christmas Day!

Up and ready!!

Breakfast bags!

A light panettone breakfast....

and presents!!

The main event!!

and then the Kings Speech!

Followed by the evening on the sofa, opening a few more presents, watching a bit of TV and the family film choice this year.... 'The Roses' with Olivia Coleman and Benedict Cumberbatch.

Merry Christmas!

Boxing Day

We breakfasted and then squeezed into the car (Ford KA) and headed over to Ham Wall 

for a blast of cold air and a walk.

Always a friendly robin!!

It was bitterly cold but much needed.

Then it was back home for a Christmas leftovers sarnie and a few games.

And some Lego building!!

Twixmas!

The time between Christmas and New Year, where you have no idea which day it is!!

Jeff  back to running, the kids enjoying lie ins and lazy starts, and me resisting the urge to tidy!! 

I had planned to walk but the wind is baltic!! So time spent doing a few more games, jigsaws, tv, Lego building, reading, all very chilled and relaxed.

Merry Christmas x