Happy Festive Wishes

Talking about winter is almost mandatory in the UK this week, so it feels like I have failed by not taking pictures of our snow, but really there has not been a lot of it. It started snowing about two hours before our taxi was due to collect me and my friends from our first Christmas celebration, but thankfully wasn’t close to serious enough to snow us in. Walking along the side of an icy canal in heels is not something I’d recommend, but no one fell in so, success! We’ve been very lucky in our area this year and there have been no crazy traffic jams like a couple of years ago (even I am bored of my horrific two year old travelling in snow story so I will spare you).

Over Christmas my plans include:

a couple of pub trips - one was yesterday and I do not feel so good this morning, mostly because random, much younger than us men convinced us to join their quiz team by finding us seats in a full to bursting pub, we were all like ‘oh we would sit with you if only you could find us chairs’ (‘no it’s ok they will never mange..’) ‘oh, chairs, how nice.’ For me meeting strangers = drinking more than I planned to and engaging in conversations about time machines, apparently.
avoiding a Christmas hangover like last year after the ‘let’s have a wine kitty’ Christmas Eve fiasco

spending time with my parents at home, in a restaurant (Boxing Day meal) and possibly seeing ‘Sherlock Holmes’ at the cinema

working (boo, but it turns out I’ve got five days off with the weekend and Bank Holiday so not too bad)

New Years Eve party! I’m overly excited about this party because it is at a friend’s new house so we don’t have to queue at a bar, or wait for taxis in the cold and I did not have to organise anything for this occasion.

You’ll see the Bookworms carnival pop up on Christmas Day, but I’ll be offline over my holiday (entirely now because it seems my wireless home internet is having issues). Hope you all have a wonderful celebratory season and I’ll catch up with you all during my very quiet work days after Christmas.