Christmas trees

The last few days of term are partying past in a whirlwind of Christmas activities; I find this considerably more tiring than my normal timetable! Susan T very kindly brought my Secret Santa from the EK book club round to our house, and James surprised me by bringing one of the Christmas trees from the garden indoors; James' Dad dug up tiny Christmas tree saplings on a trip to the Trossachs with us twenty-two years ago when I was pregnant with Jamie, and grew them in pots before planting them in our garden. James put one of them in a red bucket in the back room so now we have Christmas trees at the back as well as at the front of the house. Jack didn't know what to make of it and keeps jumping up at the branches. This evening Jamie has gone with Katie W to a - wait for it - Life Drawing class at Glasgow School of Art. Now Katie is an Art student so I can understand why she would do this as part of her studies, but the idea of Jamie sitting there with her drawing scuddy people is rather strange!