Christmas comes but once a year

 And then it is all gone.  Christmas of course. The hustle and bustle of getting enough food in and presents wrapped. I will own up here, I do not wrap only give money for them to spend on what they want.  Ben cooked the Xmas lunch beautifully, no turkey, too dry, but chicken with all the trimmings, though I notice no sprouts;)  Present opening took nearly all morning, mostly in this house it is clothes.  Though there was a Japanese puzzle box, unfathomable until Matilda looked it up on the web.

My presents were William Morris themed hand cream, books,  wool winder, bum bag and a vacuum cleaner from Ben!  I had been saying a few days before that I could not get to the corners in my room and lo and behold a small hand held cleaner has arrived. A lovely dark turquoise lidded mug from my daughter, let us call it a herb mug.  It reminded her of Paul and his Japanese lidded mugs, I can even hear the sound of the lid as he replaced it on the mug.

  My main present a 'swift' changed into something different and has to be sent back for the rightful one.  We await Andrew on that one, he just loves the hurly-burly of a good fight over consumer goods:)  Andrew was away with his son in Manchester in an apartment spending time together but is back again today.  They are off again in a couple of days to Rome I think and the house will once more be deserted, though Lillie might still be here.