We watched the King’s Speech at 3 p.m. it gave me a pang to hear God Save the King instead of the Queen. Charles made a good job of his first Christmas address as monarch; he kept it short and sweet, and he broadcast it from St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle. After raising our glasses to the King it was time for dinner. Christmas dinner went very well, there were no culinary disasters and Ally, Davie and Chanel were very complimentary about the meal. We had a rest before dessert, and then spent the rest of the afternoon and evening in the lounge, playing board games and generally relaxing. I didn’t play the first one, Betrayal in the House on the Hill, because it’s quite complicated. However I was persuaded to join in Codenames, which was great fun and very lively, we had a such a good laugh.
However someone wasn’t all that happy; our Flora. She is a creature of routine and was most dissatisfied that we were in the lounge instead of the living room. Tom wasn’t bothered at all and came and went as he pleased all day, but Flora did a bit of shouting and when Ally took her to the utility room to see if she wanted food, she asked to get into the living room and was most annoyed when Ally returned to the lounge. She’s a funny wee creature. And so another Christmas is over. We felt the absence of our parents, and we also missed our Jamie (who is having a sunny seaside Christmas with the Appletons in Waiheke Island), however it has been a really great day, both fun and relaxing.
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