Well Christmas has come and gone!
We save all year for our Christmas festivities and this year was a great time of family fun, catching up with friends and generally relaxing after a busy year.
Both Michele and I finished at lunch time on Christmas Eve and headed home to prepare for the family meal on Christmas Day. Howeverandnbsp;I had to return to Manchester at 21:30 on Christmas Eve to collect Lewis from work as the public transport system had closed down for the holidays. I did manage a glass of whiskey whenandnbsp;I came home as we set the living room up with the gifts for the morning.
Christmas Day arrived at our house at 08:00 hrs as Lewis was back in at work for 10:00 so we had a little time together before he went in to work. We did wake up to a fantastic pattern on the velux windows caused by the sharp frost – mother nature at her best.
By mid-morning my parents had arrived followed shortly by Michele’s parents. More gifts were exchanged before we sat down to am excellent typicalandnbsp;Christmasandnbsp;lunch skilfully prepared by Michele and me 😀 Following lunch we had a small game of charade’s before we settled down to a few drinks. Lewis arrived back from a days work a little worn out but a Christmas meal set to one side for him soon revived him.
Boxing Day was pretty much the same for Lewis as he was back in work. The rest of us travelled over to Altrincham via Knutsford where we collected mum’s sister before we headed to the Hare and Hounds in Timperley for aandnbsp;meal to celebrate Mum’s birthday. Following the meal we all headed to Mum and Dad’s to exchange more gifts with Sam, Matt, Harry, Drew and my brother and his family. Fran (Drew’s girlfriend) was not with us as she was with her parents, I hope she had a good time though.
On the Saturday we again woke up to mother nature at herandnbsp;best withandnbsp;blue skies with fluffy white and pink clouds in the air. Later weandnbsp;all headed over to Airkix near the Trafford Centre where Lewis, Josh and my brothers boys were taking part in an indoor skydiving experience as part of their Christmas presents. Lewis and Will were both apprehensive whereas Josh and Max both enjoyed the experience. The only downside to the skydiving was that during the training session the boys were given the option to do a high fly which entailed flying 3 storeys up rather than low level but there was a cost to bear of £5 each, this should have been made clear at the start – so be warned.
Friday was a lazy day until Lewis managed to take the top of his thumb off with a new knife Drew had bought him for Christmas! a quick trip to the walk-in centre resulted in him being patched up and sent on his way.
Later on Saturday night we had Warren, Dawn and Adam over for the evening. We had Dawn’s favourite of beef casserole cobbler – there was even some left over for Lewis who was again working. It was a late night but an enjoyable one as we’d not seen the Bray’s for a while.
Sunday night our long standing friend Helen called up to look at Lewis’s thumb and re-bandage it. We had a great catch-up with her too as it had also been a while since we had seen her too.
Now another relaxing day before the New Year appears.
