Didn't get the white Christmas I'd hoped for here in Comberton, but have had a very enjoyable and relaxing few days. After spending the Christmas and New Year period last year trekking around the UK to Liverpool, Cumbria, Edinburgh and St. Andrews (great but pretty knackering!) Lisa and I decided it would be nice to have a Christmas just staying at our house here. It has also meant that we have escaped the dreaded lurgee (aka tummy bug) that unfortunately swept through most of the rest of my family who were together on Christmas Eve triggered by our 11 month year old nephew - who I'm told just continued to grin away innocently!
We've cooked ourselves a great Christmas dinner, enjoyed a few walks around the village and just generally chilled in front of the fire (hence the tacky image above!) and TV (though has anyone else thought that the Christmas TV selection this year has been pretty poor?). I've also spent a bit of time adding to my downloaded music collection (see blog entry to follow soon).
Haven't just been anti-social 'scrooges' though - enjoyed the Christmas morning service at the village church, followed by coffee with friends around the corner. Then on Boxing Day we enjoyed the company of my brother and his girlfriend for a few hours over lunch before heading over to meet up with my cousin Andrew and his wife Hannah at her parents house about an hour away. They live in Aberdeen at the moment so it was good to get a chance to catch up with them - doesn't happen too often!
The main downside to the few days has, as so often the case for me, been the sport. Following all my recent optimism about Chelsea and Man Utd needing to watch their backs, Liverpool only went and lost to Blackburn 1-0 on Boxing Day - talk about crashing back down to earth after a great few weeks, but unfortunately so typical of the Reds! How could a team so demoralised after being beaten 6-2 by Arsenal come out and beat Liverpool just 3 days later - very annoying. Then the cricket - going from bad to worse! Little good can be said about England's performance in Australia over these last few weeks, but to not even make this latest test complete its 3rd day was sinking to even deeper depths! Absolutely pathetic!
Overall though a really good Christmas - not quite up to the level of 2 of our fairly recent Christmas's when we were skiing, but definitely 1 of the best! I think I was definitely ready for the rest and have benefitted from it - managed to write over a thousand words in just a few hours on holiday essay number 2 today, a marked improvement on the painfully slow progress on essay 1 last week.
Hope your Christmas's have been good celebrations as well, and that Santa visited with desired items! I'll leave this here for now - off for curry and a beer with some friends.
1 comment:
sounds like a lovely time was had. Hope you have a Happy New Year! xxx
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