Leftovers
December 25th 2019 Today I simply had to have a second plate of Christmas dinner. I felt like I would’ve been letting myself down, and more importantly letting my mum down, if I didn’t go back for more. We had … Continue reading Leftovers
Tag: christmas
Dancefloor
December 26th 2018 Today a calm, casual, Boxing Day Christmas 2.0 down Grandma’s somehow ended with five of us belting out Oasis at 3:30am. I can’t speak for everyone else, but for me the culprit was Southern Comfort. I’d never … Continue reading Dancefloor
Anticipation
December 25th 2018 Today, in case you’d forgotten, is Christmas Day. To be fair, it would be easy to forget because this year, Christmas has seemed to sneak up from out of nowhere. Perhaps it’s because we were so focused … Continue reading Anticipation
Phoebe
December 27th 2017 Today our day-after-Boxing-Day plans were scuppered by an inch of snow. The boy-cousins, the boy-friends, my dad, and his dad were supposed to play in a golf tournament at 9:30am, but when we woke up to whiteness, … Continue reading Phoebe
Makeshift
December 26th 2017 Today we broke our own world record for the number of family members at Boxing Day dinner. I think previously our best was 17 people, whereas today we had 19. We were supposed to have 20, but … Continue reading Makeshift
Navidad
December 25th 2017 Today is Christmas Day – in case you hadn’t figured it out. It was a weird one. It was, I think, the first time in my life that I didn’t eat Christmas dinner with my Mum and … Continue reading Navidad
Group
December 23rd 2017 Today we had our yearly Christmas Eve eve catch up night together with our core group of school friends. That’s a poorly constructed sentence, but never mind. We had beer, and pizza, and FIFA, and beer, and … Continue reading Group
Clause
December 20th 2017 Today I’m just about kinda sorta coming to terms with the fact that it’s Christmas on Monday. At work, our office has been full of decorations for a few weeks, but the Christmas music has only really … Continue reading Clause
Puzzle
December 16th 2017 Today, at 24 years old, I spent my Saturday evening doing a 1000-piece cat puzzle. Actually, that’s not strictly true — we gave up after about 25 pieces. Alice won the puzzle in a work raffle, so … Continue reading Puzzle
Elves
December 14th 2017 Today was our annual work Christmas hill run. At 11:28 this morning I decided that I didn’t want to do the run, but at 11:30 I was down there, dressed in a Christmas jumper and a Santa … Continue reading Elves
