Monday – Ady went off to work in the morning. I wrapped Scarlett’s birthday presents and then started the Christmas puzzle. I love puzzles 🙂 The kids have both a bit of  a go at it but it’s been mostly me. We had lunch and then I prepped dinner as we were heading down for the school nativity play in the early evening so I wanted dinner ready to shove in the oven when we got back.
We got down and back crunchy through the frosty ground, it was so beautiful and twinkly. The play was actually really good fun. The four school kids had mostly written it themselves and it had them pondering various questions about Christmas traditions and visiting various islanders to find out the answers as we sat in the audience. So why do we have Christmas trees answered by Mr Rhys who chops firewood, why were the nativity animals kept in a stable when ours are kept out in the fields by me, why a baby was born in the stable rather than a house or bunkhouse answered by Ady in the absence of Bunkhouse managed Jed, why babies are special anyway answered by Lesley, why there was a star in the sky answered by Fliss, why we send cards answered by Trudi who does some post office shifts and why we give presents answered by Ali. We sang Away in a manger and it was all very festive. Mulled wine and mince pies and then home for dinner and A very merry Muppet Christmas movie.
Tuesday – Scarlett’s birthday 🙂 I’ll do a page for that later. She had threatened to be up at 7am but my Mum woke me ringing at 8am and we finally got the kids up just before 930am as I’d put a dedication on the breakfast show (which they didn’t read) so wanted Scarlett up for it! She had a fair few presents; mostly baking stuff as she’s really into cake decorating just now, so a load of tools, a mixer, loads of sprinkles, some playmobil, a jar of marmite with her name on it, some lights with her name. Her main gift is a zoo trip next week so she was thrilled with what she got. Pancakes for breakfast and then mostly over to me for food. Scarlett and I made some cupcakes and she spent ages and ages decorating them, I made bread rolls and soup for lunch, venison pie for dinner and birthday brownies.
Ady went to the ferry as we had some amazon coming but otherwise we were all home all day and it was a nice day. We spoke to my parents, watched Nativity 2 and drank fizz. I did the photo calendars for us and for my Mum & Dad’s Christmas presents.
Today – Ady worked this morning. It’s been really windy so I spent the day catching up with various online stuff – monthly residents newsletter, friends of Rum newsletter and reading up on the avian flu stuff. And some puzzle.