Saturday, December 29, 2012
More socialising.
It was a long and special day yesterday.
We arrived at my brother's house at about 11 o'clock and spent the day with a happy collection of my family....brother, sister in law, niece, nephew and their spouses, a great nephew, my half brother and sister and their mother ( my father's second wife) and 3 half nephews and nieces.
The party also included some family friends.
How fantastic that we were so well fed and entertained for the day.
We enjoyed a roast beef dinner and Christmas pudding - or other lighter puddings for those that preferred that,
In the afternoon there was a session of present exchanging.
Thank you family for interesting things.
We are a family who have made a point of not adding too much materialistic to Christmas presents - often the presents are second hand and none the worse for that.
In fact - all the better for that!
A grand tea was laid on.
The Christmas season is also the colds and flu season....and some were feeling laid low by the bugs.
Worst off was the 2 year old - a high temperature and total apathy for much of the day about the goings on.
But most had a good run around in the garden during the afternoon for a short while.
I took lots of photos....too many really for a blog posting.
You can find them on Flickr.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/monklandpaula/sets/72157632377311976/
If anybody wants any of the photos, please ask. They can't be copied from Flickr.
One of the pictures - my brother and his grandson, who was alert enough to show a little interest in a train book for a short while.
We hadn't planned for another day with family contact today.....but life is good at throwing us bonus days.
We went into the town centre for a short while this morning.
We needed bread and a calendar/diary to hang in the kitchen to keep us organised through 2013.
We also bought a bottle of Suffolk beer for a brother in law, whose birthday is today (he loves Suffolk).
We decided to walk home via their house - not wanting to disturb them for too long, for we knew they were cooking dinner for their immediate family to celebrate the birthday.
But we went in and had a red wine with them.
I guess we were on the point of leaving...most of their guests had arrived, when the door bell rang and there was Bill's and his sister's cousin, who lives in Yorkshire.
We had all been hoping to see her and her husband during this Christmas week sometime.
So, sit back down and have another red wine!
Much chatter and joy at meeting up again.
I guess it was the red wine combined with much socialising, but we both dozed away for the afternoon.
I roused myself to cook a roast dinner - the last of our 4 bird roast that we had enjoyed on Christmas Day.
We arrived at my brother's house at about 11 o'clock and spent the day with a happy collection of my family....brother, sister in law, niece, nephew and their spouses, a great nephew, my half brother and sister and their mother ( my father's second wife) and 3 half nephews and nieces.
The party also included some family friends.
How fantastic that we were so well fed and entertained for the day.
We enjoyed a roast beef dinner and Christmas pudding - or other lighter puddings for those that preferred that,
In the afternoon there was a session of present exchanging.
Thank you family for interesting things.
We are a family who have made a point of not adding too much materialistic to Christmas presents - often the presents are second hand and none the worse for that.
In fact - all the better for that!
A grand tea was laid on.
The Christmas season is also the colds and flu season....and some were feeling laid low by the bugs.
Worst off was the 2 year old - a high temperature and total apathy for much of the day about the goings on.
But most had a good run around in the garden during the afternoon for a short while.
I took lots of photos....too many really for a blog posting.
You can find them on Flickr.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/monklandpaula/sets/72157632377311976/
If anybody wants any of the photos, please ask. They can't be copied from Flickr.
We hadn't planned for another day with family contact today.....but life is good at throwing us bonus days.
We went into the town centre for a short while this morning.
We needed bread and a calendar/diary to hang in the kitchen to keep us organised through 2013.
We also bought a bottle of Suffolk beer for a brother in law, whose birthday is today (he loves Suffolk).
We decided to walk home via their house - not wanting to disturb them for too long, for we knew they were cooking dinner for their immediate family to celebrate the birthday.
But we went in and had a red wine with them.
I guess we were on the point of leaving...most of their guests had arrived, when the door bell rang and there was Bill's and his sister's cousin, who lives in Yorkshire.
We had all been hoping to see her and her husband during this Christmas week sometime.
So, sit back down and have another red wine!
Much chatter and joy at meeting up again.
I guess it was the red wine combined with much socialising, but we both dozed away for the afternoon.
I roused myself to cook a roast dinner - the last of our 4 bird roast that we had enjoyed on Christmas Day.
