This weekend saw visitors from The Shire (Lincolnshire) in the form of Laura and Holly. Ditching the husbands and kids for the weekend they braved the motorway boredom on a Friday afternoon to come see me and have a night on the Cheltenham tiles. Before heading out to help break my Dry February spell there was a quick facetime to say night to the kiddywinks back home.
I’d been meaning to do a day in pictures for a while, but not yet got round to it. So I decided, what better day to do it than Christmas Day?
My original idea for a day in pictures was actually to take a picture every hour, but I’m pretty sure I didn’t stick to that. Time kind of ran away with me, and I wasn’t clock watching. So, this is my Christmas Day 2013 in pictures:
Chats with the family first thing (Christmas Eve night UK time):
My traditional Christmas Day morning run (can’t miss that!):
Going out for dinner so I decided to glam up a bit when getting ready. Not worn mascara for months!:
Pre-dinner preparations, including champagne:
CHRISTMAS DINNER! South African/Aussie mix of turkey, roasties, pumpkin, peach salad, beans, cranberry gravy and christmas pudding. YUM.
New friends:
Afternoon champagne after dinner:
Later on, two bottles of champers down:
We move onto Moscato. DELICIOUS!:
Early evening, riding home in the sunshine:
Chilled out evening watching National Lampoon with the cat and dog, eating pizza and Toblerone:
Then some Google hangouts with some buddies. Karl wasn’t too keen on having his photo taken:
Washing up. Got to be done:
Then a mammoth FaceTime session with the family on their Christmas Morning (late Xmas Day night/early Boxing day morning here). I was in the iPad, propped up on the sofa and it was just like I was in the room for a bit. Lots of laughs and giggles. And I look orange because of THE LIGHT:
Bedtime. Ok, so this was actually the early hours of Boxing Day morning but it still counts, as it’s the last thing I did:
Pretty perfect day.
