It can only be described as expat and family less Christmas Day. We had a group of us for together for lunch at ours, and to make it more involved it was bring a dish. We did the turkey and the tatties but veggies came from Danny, ham wrapped in bread (German dish) from Chris and Maggie, Anne bought eggnog and dessert to accompany the Christmas pudding (and custard!) that was bought by Karen and Dave who also provided crackers! It was wonderful the table was decorated and everything seemed really Christmassy if you just ignore the fact it wasn't very cold outside.
Before everyone turned up Stuart and I managed to do our traditional stocking opening session in bed followed by presents under the tree. We both did very well – thank you for all our gifts. Both of us managed to put on our Christmas clothing before the group arrived.
The table crackers provided lots of entertainment but the jokes could only be described as naff! it was compulsory to wear your paper hat as always only Ferdinand was excused – he was extremely all day enjoying watching the ceiling fan while we ate noisily next to him!
So we started drinking Prosecco with smoked salmon on brown bread just like we do at Mum and Dad’s followed by a very long lunch eating way too much and finally a walk around the block to try and work some of it off.
Danny and Anne stayed the night so our party continued into the wee small hours and we even had gluvine that Danny also brought with more eggnog! I think we all rolled into bed at about 2am only to wake with the most awful hangovers! It was hardly surprising! I have to say Anne looked the worse and only wanted black coffee when she finally made it downstairs late morning!
