Christmas card campaign

Our new carpet was delivered this morning. Unfortunately it was 40 cm (about 15 inches) too narrow for the room. I will draw a veil over the details of how this happened but suffice it to say that it was not the fault of our supplier John Lewis.

When a rather despondent James went over to visit Grandma, Alasdair had the idea of cheering him up by writing all the Christmas cards while he was gone. In thirty years of marriage I have always written all of the Christmas cards by myself. James helps out by printing address labels but it is still quite a time consuming task, usually taking a couple of evenings. However with Alasdair on the case we were like a well-oiled machine. Ally is certainly a good organiser! He got me to write the cards and he labelled the envelopes, put in the cards, and allocated them into piles for posting or local delivery. It was actually a pleasure and we were a good team. When James arrived home a couple of hours later we were just finishing and he was suitably impressed.

Update at midnight - not only has Ally posted the stamped cards but he has just walked for an hour around our neighbourhood and has delivered all of the local cards! What a boy!