I had work this morning. Ady took Davies and Scarlett off with him and they drove north of the downs where there is actually some snow. Other than the heavy fall here while we were at camp, which we missed all of while having only a fairly small amount in Okehampton we have had no more than the odd dusting here. I know it’s caused chaos and I obviously don’t wish it to come along and disrupt travel arrangements and stuff for people but I’d quite like a more even distribution so we actually got an inch or two of the snow that others have had feet of! So the kids got to play in some snow :).
I had a busy morning at work wishing people Merry Christmas and doing the odd thing here or there relating to books ;).
Back home Ady and the kids were here eating lunch so Ady left as I got in and I had some lunch too. Then we nipped out to a localish store which sells fabric to get some for Scarlett’s other cuddly duck (or indeed dick) and feed my car with some petrol.
Back at home I sorted the kids tea and made myself a cup of tea laced with brandy and headed upstairs to begin wrapping. The kids were stars keeping the fire going and finding stuff to watch on TV while I got everything out of hiding places and checked size of respective piles against each other. I had a minor wobble about the smallness of the piles but got over that reminding myself that actually they both have several pretty expensive items, we are cutting back on consumerism and we are going away in 11 weeks etc. etc. Then I had a major wobble when I decided I would ensure the psp for Davies was fully charged and couldn’t find a charger 😯 I couldn’t get hold of Ady to check that we had one (we got it second hand from one of his workmates) and was frantically checking online about chargers, price and availability of chargers and so on. How crap a Christmas present would that have been? It turned out we do have the charger, just stashed in a different location.
Despite my misgivings about volume of gifts it still took me over 2 hours to wrap stuff, which meant even a very late home Ady was back. The kids went off to bed and Ady and I did a swift tidy round the house ready for our first potential tenants visit in the morning. Ady cooked and it was another late dinner.