In Between Days

Sunday. Christmas Day. 

I woke relatively early, well my body was in work mode from the day before. 

I got up, bought all the presents in the living room as if Santa had been. Showered and changed while Kev took the gateau out of the freezer and put the pork in the oven to roast. We opened our presents oohing and ahhing over what we'd bought each other, and what other people had bought us. 

We drank bucks fizz and snacked on bread sticks. 

It wasn't long until Pete came to fetch us, and bring our beautiful gift of another large Easter island statue. This one is larger than the other two. We've named him Mud mud. You'll only know if you know, the movie. Anyhow Kev placed him in the garden. We will arrange them properly later... He looks perfect...

We got to Sue's and swapped gifts ( the small ones as we had bought large gifts between us) Sue and Pete a bigger air fryer and us Mud Mud.  

We received gifts from Karen ( my niece) that we weren't expecting and believe me that girl knows how to find the perfect gifts for us. A gorgeous glass pumpkin and a haunted swing ready to go outside for next Halloween.

The dinner was delicious, and we had laughs galore with the crackers and selfie props. Later on we watched Del Torro's Pinochio. A very good but dark version of the story. He could easily be the next Tim Burton the way he comes up with his stunning take on classic tales with chilling animation and sets. Justin my nephew came over during this and it was lovely to see him too. 

We'd taken a board game with us and we played that with hilarious results. It was like the blind leading the blind figuring out how to play it. But great fun. And one we will play again next time, if we are blessed with another Christmas together.

We throughly enjoyed every minute and as always it makes us appreciate the fact that we have family members that are friends too...