Lockdown Diary........ A Christmas first

For the first time in the 42 years I’ve been with Philip we will be having Christmas dinner together at home and we are both quite excited about it.

Normally we spend the morning together, open our presents, then I go off to Mum’s for a couple of hours.   I would pick Auntie Gladys up around 2pm and go back to Mum’s.  My sister would drive up from Oxford and my brother would arrive in time for a lovely meal cooked by our amazing 88 year old Mum, who has done it every year of our life, bar one when she was poorly and I had to cook it.   

After our food we open presents and have a general catch up with one another.  Later on I’d take Auntie gladys home then go on to join Philip and all his side of the family at our niece’s house.  Finally returning home together around 9pm-10pm.

Due to us being in Tier 3 we have decided that this year I will go to Mum’s house for breakfast and my brother will go for Christmas lunch.  Mum’s house is a small pretty back to back house with a tiny living room and galley kitchen.  Not conducive to having a pile of folk in and keeping socially distanced.

Also my sister can’t come home as she is having an operation on Monday and will not be allowed to travel afterwards.  As you recall my lovely Auntie Gladys died in March. It’s hard to believe nine months has passed by.  

Nevertheless, even though I’m not going far I’m still going to wear my new velvet coat and tartan dress.  Well I can’t go to the pub or a restaurant so it’ll have to be posh frocks at home.

On Christmas Eve we are having a Christmas buffet box from our local farm shop.  It’s to make up for the meal we are missing out on with friends.

I said I wasn’t cluttering up the lounge with Christmas tat after having our new carpet laid and the room looking so tidy.  However the welder shamed me by saying I was being a grinch, so this is my offering along with a fat plastic Father Christmas hanging from the bathroom window and one on the garden gate that is wrapped in tinsel. Talk about tasteless. 

Let me know how Christmas will be different for you this year.  If it has been changed at all.

 

Take care and stay safe.

Happy Christmas wherever you spend it 

Lynn

xxx

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