and a happy, happy, happy new year.

The children and I have spent most of the day on the verge of hysteria today, mostly due to possibly the most over-embellished song I have ever heard.

This morning was quiet with the children doing some geomagging and then we popped to the post office to send Christmas cards before heading over to Ali’s.

On the way we put on one of our Christmas cds and track one is ‘We Wish You A Merry Christmas’. I must try and find a way of getting it online so everyone can share in the hilarity, but basically it is just so messed about with that although the basic song is there somewhere it is totally buried under a pile of vocal whoa-whoa-ing and baby-baby-ing. We listened to it about four times, singing along even more outlandishly ourselves and then turned the music off and tried to over-embellish nursery rhymes in the same style. I did Twinkle Twinkle (twinkle, twinkle , tiny) Little Star (gonna spend the rest of my whole life wondering what the hell you are), Davies did a rather good Humpty Dumpty and Tarly mostly laughed a lot with a few ‘oh baby’s’ added in for good measure. We enjoyed it so much we took the cd in to share with Ali and Freya too and infected them too (bet you’re still whoa-whoaing!).

Lovely visit as usual – there was the cruel subjection to us of a pink and fluffy film, xboxing, pesto pasta and peanut butter sandwiches made in about four different preference styles and bread colours.

We drove home listening to the Wallace & Gromit soundtrack cd which Davies adores, spending the whole time not actually listening to it as such, but giving a full running commentary on which bit of the film it is the music to. Honestly – when I was a kid I used to fantacise about being an actress or a dancer or a singer. Davies is practising being the director and talking over films for the dvd extras! 😆

We called into Tesco on the way home. That’s the All New Tesco which has Been Reopened After Substantial Refurbishment. It was pretty busy and because nothing now lives where it used to, or indeed where you might have temporarily gotten used to it being during the work it was full of people wandering about looking for tinned soups, cat litter and low fat fromage frais. We did a fair bit of that too, in particular spending time searching for ginger wine. I did feel really quite ashamed of that really, like I’d let myself down infront of my children by not being able to track down any given alcohol within a two minute time frame :lol:.

Ady had already gotten home before us, so we did the kids’ tea and then sat watching tv and chatting. Continuing the theme of general hysteria I organised them to bed by way of an empty toilet roll loud hailer all of which probably contributed quite heavily to neither of them falling asleep very quickly. We caught up on 3 mini books from their Christmas Carol advent calendar (it has 24 little books telling the Dickens story which you hang on the tree as you read) and all hid from some carol singers because we didn’t have any change to offer them 😆 Ah happy days!