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To those I missed – Happy Xmas!

Went to church last night. The whole family. How…. odd. There was a ‘Christingle service’. It was CofE – I was brought up CofE & I’ve never seen one of these before. Louise was busy making tea & Jack asked if he could go. Um… Ok, Louise said – so cheese on toast is rolled out at the dozen & we’re tidied up & off! We even make it there on time. On entering the church we were given an orange with a red ribbon 4 cocktail sticks with sweets & a candle stuck in it; all very significant details. We sat upstairs in the upper pews. Nice view of the wooden beams. Interesting church – can’t place it in a ‘traditional architectural’ era. Suspect not all of it is not that old, but has airs to look that way. Service went well & the bizarre totem was explained. Eve needed a wee just at the end – so had to take her outside with her ‘portable potty’ & try to get back in while everyone else was leaving. Jack consumed the sweets on the sticks stating something like, “I like sweets, I do”.

I think I’ve got the majority of my Xmas cards sorted out this year. I would send many more cards if I was assured of correct addresses & actually had taken note of people’s addresses properly. I am poor at such details; bad paul. The most amazing thing I find about this is the fact that I managed to get organised this year. It’s been a dreadful month for getting anything done.

Train home.

Cut short on typing yesterday due to the crowded train & this morning I had someone hogging the table with an enormous laptop. Blimey them things are big – I’m glad for this little eMate.

Anyway – to cut the chase – (continuing from yesterday) Jude’s rash got a whole lot worse. Worse than anything the health visitor had seen when we popped in on Wednesday, but it did not bother him & it got better. You’d not know it had been there now.

Jack has been a shepherd in the school nativity – which has meant going to school the last couple of evenings to perform. We took him Monday – the whole brood, but we didn’t get to see the play itself, as there were no tickets. We also had Eve & Jude – so it really was not that practical to stand at the back. We stayed in the classroom & both kiddies enjoyed roaming around a while before the classes filed back in. Louise’s mum took him last night. Eve konked out asleep in bed just before they got in the house. She was tired. Louise’s mum got to see the play by sneaking in at the back – but didn’t really say that much about it all. The ‘inkeeper’ was a comic role as he kept having to get out of bed & they sang a lot. Well – they would sing. Jack enjoys his singing & often sings his latest hymns to us at home. A favourite with Jack & Eve at the moment is ‘Jingle Bells’ – which through Jacks reading goes, “On that farm it is to ride on a one horse oaken sleigh, HEY!, Jingle bells etc…”
Got all of Jack’s Xmas cards done. Have to do all of Eve’s yet & our cards… welll… I’ve done one or 2… I used to do LOADS. Time time time time.