Christmas in July, well August.

Over here quite a few people celebrate Christmas in July which I thought was wierd until this year.

The weather is cold, the television is showing Christmas episodes of all the American programmes (that's all of them then) and you just do feel Christmassy - I have even caught myself singing carols !

Last night a good friend, Karen and her two girls Molly and Alice, invited us all over for Christmas dinner. We had the full works - nut roast, mash, boiled potatoes, green beans, sprouts, carrots, peas, cauliflower cheese, yorkshire pudding and gravy etc etc followed by home made pavlova and chocolate log. She had even put up a little Christmas tree and we all had presents under the tree. It was absolutely fabulous and felt just right ! I think we will make this a regular thing now, every year, Christmas in winter. Not sure if Paul will let me put the lights up though ! I will have to make sure we get extra crackers this year to put away.

Karen had just had her cinema room all fitted out so we then sat and watched Polar Express on the cinema screen with surround sound. What a fab night !

01:07 - Sun 3 August 2008