I know Christmas is on its way, but I have wafted about today like a puppet with its strings cut. Indecision is such a hard thing to deal with. Should we go or should we stay? Having agreed we’d stay at home due to the contact with a COVID case, I wanted to change my mind – I so wanted to go to Paul’s for a big family Christmas. But we are going to play it safe and I shall try to adjust my thinking and swallow my disappointment.
Naturally, I had stocked up with food and drink to take with us – so I shall deliver as much as I can tomorrow for the Kenilworth Sleaths to enjoy.
In an attempt to displace all those horrible churny feelings, I got on with jobs mostly today and watched a film. Beds made up; a tidy round and the ham cooked – well, burnt, actually. I always cover it with brown sugar which, if you don’t keep your eye on it, quickly cinders. Unfortunately, John had shut the kitchen door to keep the cats out, as he didn’t want them messing with his cake decorating, and I didn’t hear the beeper on the oven……ah, well, it’s still edible.
John has spent the day icing the cake and he has gone very traditional and sedate this year, with a snowy scene of Santa ice-skating on a shiny blue lake, with penguin accompaniment.
This evening I had a lovely chat with the college girls on Zoom, when we all dressed up in silly Santa hats and raised a glass to each other and absent friends. A nice way to spend an evening on Christmas Eve ‘Eve’.
COVID figures are still rising and everyone knows someone who has had it or currently got it now with Christmas plans being amended at the last minute. It hasn’t only affected us – Anita is now stopping at home alone as her future son-in-law is sick with the virus, and Liz’s son is now making a midnight dash having had COVID last week.
119,789 people tested positive for the virus today. 147 people died in the community and 1,004 people were admitted to hospitals. 51 people died in hospitals in the previous 48 hours.
I may not blog for a few days over the Christmas period, so I wish everyone a happy, healthy and blessed Christmas.
Take care everyone. May His light shine upon you.
P.S. Susie Dent’s Word of the Day: (because it’s time) is ‘scurryfunging’: madly dashing about in an effort to tidy up before visitors arrive.
I’ve thoroughly enjoyed your blog over the last year and more. Here’s hoping that you have an enjoyable – if socially “absent” distanced Christmas with plenty of zooming and chatting.
I look forward to reading more after the festive break and seeing the occasional family photo / anecdote
Our very best wishes to you and the family.
p.s. Love the penguins!
Sorry your plans for Christmas have gone pear shaped – better safe than sorry but that does nothing to alleviate the pain of disappointment 😢.
Hope you have the best Christmas you can in the circumstances and we will see you again when it is safer to do so.
With our love to you both
Dawn, Peter and Jack xxx