Blessed is he/she who expects nothing for ..... And such is the case now. It was such a good idea to take photos - it was an even better idea to charge the camera battery before leaving the charger in my car in Reading. Pity I didn't!
It's lovely being with the family - particularly immediately after Hannah found the book "The 12 knits of Christmas" and immediately ordered 150 pounds worth of wool for me to knit a complete set for NEXT Christmas. (You know the one ... 5 gold rings, 4 turtle doves, 3 french hens, 2 calling doves and a partridge in a pear tree - going up to 12 of the last item. Fortunately I have NEVER sewn up such things and Hannah is particularly artistic and makes something out of nothing, with the greatest of ease. So that's 78 items that need to be completed within the next 12 months!)
We've been terribly tempted to have a play - so the last 2 nights have seen us both up until 2.00 am knitting/sewing practise items with bits and pieces of leftover wool (9 items, thus far). It's as well I leave here on Wednesday.
And while I was here mainly to assist with packing ... and James has been out and purchased bubble wrap and boxes ... today has been the first day that we have actually gotten round to using any of it. We've managed to wrap all the pictures from the first floor (30 odd) and tomorrow the intention is that we'll box up some books (well - that is, after a small shopping expedition in the morning after blood tests for Hannah).
Rachel and Will have been round for a meal and I've been around to her house on a couple of occasions too. It's lovely being with family, so close to Christmas - the children are a delight (all 5 of them) and appear to believe their Great Aunt's explanation of 'secret squirrel' who reports to Santa about any bad (or good) behaviour ... there seem to be plenty of squirrels to chose from in the gardens here.
We're still uncertain about Christmas Day, but even so I've managed to sort out and wrap all the presents for the immediate family now - which I can leave with Hannah. I've never been so organised!
Ho ho ho - I'm off to Kent on Wednesday. Not too keen on all these farewells.
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