Christmas fun

With a buggered car the fun and games that is trying to get across the country at christmas by train, with a backpack full of presents, was always going to be fun and astonishingly it was not actually too bad. Although in light of the horror that has been his last few journeys (passim) any journey that actually gets him there within 3 hours of his intended arrival is pretty good.

Christmas surrounded by nippers





is what it is all about of course (except in the years he goes skiing for christmas) and lots of excitable kids and presents made this one a decent year. His own presents had the touch of the functional about them (what he doesn't know own in the line of kitchen implements is not worth knowing about).

To add to the entire saucepan lid orientated christmas the lovely Kathryn and he took the oldest two to see Cinderella at panto (with Gareth Gates as Prince Charming), the usual nonsense, very far from being as good as his own performances in panto.

New Year mind you was spent surrounded by all his friends, yep, on his own.