Over for another year...
Dec. 26th, 2008 11:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caz963It's late on Boxing Day - Santa brought me a new laptop cable yesterday so I've at last been able to catch up on news, LJ and other bits and pieces.
It's been a good couple of days. The kids went to bed quite happily on Christmas Eve, and the next thing we knew was Elinor coming into our room at ten to eight on Christmas morning to tell us that Santa had been.
Mr Caz asked her what time she'd woken up, and she said "oh, about four." "So did you open your presents, then?" "Oh, no. I saw he'd been and then I went back to sleep."
Wow. How many kids would have done that? I heard a boy of eight on the radio later saying how he'd woken his mum up at ten to four! And as for Abigail, I think we had to wake her up at about a quarter past eight!
Presents were unwrapped and a family breakfast was had (smoked salmon, scrambled eggs and toast). We had a fairly leisurely morning (we always get the turkey ready the night before and put the oven on the timer so we don't have to mess about with it while the kids are opening their presents).
We had a visit form Mr Caz's cousin and his family in the morning, and then my parents came over for lunch and the rest of the day. If I say so myself, the dinner was pretty damn good :-)
More presents and then it was time for Doctor Who. I enjoyed it on the whole, although I'd already guessed the reason for the "other doctor" not being able to remember stuff was due to some sort of traumatic event, but it didn't spoil things. There was action, humour, an OTT baddie and cybermen, oh, and David Morrisey, an actor whose presence in a TV show is more or less guaranteed to get me watching it.
I'm not into Strictly, so we had tea while that was on, and then settled down for another of the day's higlights, Wallace and Gromit - A Matter of Loaf and Death. It didn't disappoint - Gromit's eyerolling was as superb as ever, the amazing attention to detail (like the album by "McFlea"), the hommages to movies and TV - it was all there, wonderfully done - and initial figures indicate it was the most watched programme on Christmas Day. In fact, it looks as though the Beeb won the ratings war hands down, with W&G, DW, Strictly and the two editions of Eastenders (yuk) being the top five shows.
Lunch today was the traditional cold meat and mash (and pickles, although I'm not really a big fan of that bit). The six of us managed to demolish a huge trifle and a considerable number of mince pies too - I'll have to make some more tomorrow!
Tomorrow is Saturday - I might take the kids to the cinema and/our out to spend some of their Christmas money. Although, come to think of it, with the demise of Woolies, there isn't really anywhere local for them to spend it, so that trip might have to wait.
But it's back to normal.
It's been a good couple of days. The kids went to bed quite happily on Christmas Eve, and the next thing we knew was Elinor coming into our room at ten to eight on Christmas morning to tell us that Santa had been.
Mr Caz asked her what time she'd woken up, and she said "oh, about four." "So did you open your presents, then?" "Oh, no. I saw he'd been and then I went back to sleep."
Wow. How many kids would have done that? I heard a boy of eight on the radio later saying how he'd woken his mum up at ten to four! And as for Abigail, I think we had to wake her up at about a quarter past eight!
Presents were unwrapped and a family breakfast was had (smoked salmon, scrambled eggs and toast). We had a fairly leisurely morning (we always get the turkey ready the night before and put the oven on the timer so we don't have to mess about with it while the kids are opening their presents).
We had a visit form Mr Caz's cousin and his family in the morning, and then my parents came over for lunch and the rest of the day. If I say so myself, the dinner was pretty damn good :-)
More presents and then it was time for Doctor Who. I enjoyed it on the whole, although I'd already guessed the reason for the "other doctor" not being able to remember stuff was due to some sort of traumatic event, but it didn't spoil things. There was action, humour, an OTT baddie and cybermen, oh, and David Morrisey, an actor whose presence in a TV show is more or less guaranteed to get me watching it.
I'm not into Strictly, so we had tea while that was on, and then settled down for another of the day's higlights, Wallace and Gromit - A Matter of Loaf and Death. It didn't disappoint - Gromit's eyerolling was as superb as ever, the amazing attention to detail (like the album by "McFlea"), the hommages to movies and TV - it was all there, wonderfully done - and initial figures indicate it was the most watched programme on Christmas Day. In fact, it looks as though the Beeb won the ratings war hands down, with W&G, DW, Strictly and the two editions of Eastenders (yuk) being the top five shows.
Lunch today was the traditional cold meat and mash (and pickles, although I'm not really a big fan of that bit). The six of us managed to demolish a huge trifle and a considerable number of mince pies too - I'll have to make some more tomorrow!
Tomorrow is Saturday - I might take the kids to the cinema and/our out to spend some of their Christmas money. Although, come to think of it, with the demise of Woolies, there isn't really anywhere local for them to spend it, so that trip might have to wait.
But it's back to normal.
