Christmas Day is over for another year - it seems to have crept up on us this year but thinking about it - it does that every year. Harry, had the week off work and so he did the shopping for us and some organisation for our trip home in April and I cycled to work in reasonably warm and dry conditions. I went to the Doctor's for some antibiotics, as the dentist said it wasn't a tooth causing me pain but could be a sinus infection. But the next day, Christmas Eve I went back to the dentist as my filling was half out, and then back to the Doctors as the antibiotics he had prescribed me would, according to the pharmacist, make me blister and miserable if I was in direct sunlight (the Doctor had never asked if I was going on holiday and remarked when I returned that there isn't normally a problem in England!!). In the evening we went to the Christmas Eve service at the Salvation Army where a 10 piece brass band played Christmas Carols quietly, children played and we watched a video, pulled christmas crackers and was asked 'What do you hope for at Christmas?' (Easy question - to hear some familiar voices of those I love). We then drove off to pick up Rebecca from the bus station (her text arrived 24 hours later to tell us she was on the bus - probably followed Santa around the world). Christmas morning we made our dessert offerings - the first time we had baked cakes and pavlova since we have been here - they turned out quite well even if we say so ourselves -and Harry invented a piping tool with a plastic bag to make the lamingtons look good.
After opening our presents and a breakfast of croissants we looked out and saw some blue sky (it was reasonably warm but still chilly but for winter quite good) and so we wandered off to the Common to take some photos (thinking we might have missed the blue sky - but there was still some). So, after a nice leisurely morning we drove to Chris and her family for Christmas lunch - turkey and all the trimmings, a walk (Ben tried out his new bike), pressies, games (eg charades), Christmas pudding and our desserts. We had a lovely English Christmas and felt honoured to be invited into someone else's home on a special day.
Boxing Day - there was not a cloud in the sky and so we decided to take a wander through the woodland at Woodchester House. We had been to the House before, but not the gardens and had a nice few hours walking on the sunny side of the hill, looking at the 5 little dams, searching for the rare breed of pig that like living in the Woodlands, passed some very hairy cows, watched the dappled sheep that came towards me to have their photo taken.
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