December was a very busy month. In between more visits to Doctors and hospitals, we fitted in visits to babysit my younger grandson when his mother was unwell, visits to take my sister shopping as she can't walk easily at the moment due to a hip problem, visits to the development where I am a Director to to do some admin work up there, and my own Christmas shopping. As you can see, there was a LOT of Christmas shopping!
Everybody came to me for Christmas, the first contingent (my sister) arriving on Friday 19th, followed by my older grandson and his mother on the 20th. My son came a few days later. I noticed that most other people's Christmas trees were far more elegant than mine; my excuse is that my grandson was almost solely responsible for the decoration, which I hope will explain some of the gaps!
My grandson, like his father, really does enjoy making things - various of us helped him put together a gingerbread house.
I'm afraid it didn't last very long!
In the garden outside, somebody even decorated a little Christmas tree which is growing near the garages. The heather was clearly impressed, so it flowered and that part of the garden looked quite colourful.
We were planning to be 9 on the night of Christmas Eve, as my older son and his wife and son were due to arrive then, but illness prevented that, which was a real shame.
All our guests left on Sunday 28th, and on the 30th, after a mountain of laundry, we drove up to Manchester where I have rented a flat for 6 months. It's a two bedroomed flat (to allow for visitors) in the same road as the church where we stayed last time but a couple of blocks south. It's about a 15 minute walk from my son's house. I wasn't really looking forward to being in Manchester, previous experience being that it's cold and dark and it rains a lot!
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