AWAKE.........

Very pretty!!!

and@Ricecrispie....what an absolutely wonderful sunset!!

and I read your post and at first thouht it said “DH Goose cooked our dinner”....I must get some glasses!!Glad you had a nice time though....

I watched “The Red Shoes”simply wonderful all through,costumes,characters and choreography...could it be the best ballet I have EvER seen?....and Morcambe and Wise and Victoria Wood,(fab) and Bakeoff.Fab offerings on the telly.xx

love Violet xx

I missed the Red Shoes Violetsniff but will make sure I catch up with it.

Lovely gift ... he did well.

xx

I too missed Red Shoes but will hopefully catch it on catch up, watched 30 years of HIGNFY (have I got news for you) which was funny. We recorded some programmes but I didn’t think to record all I wanted to watch; thank goodness for catch up!

we had a lovely long zoom with the family though, in spite of sons MiL who stayed over (support bubble that she really milked!) and so will have to stay sober to drive her home tonight, she doesn’t drive (didn’t think it worth her while to learn as she was waited on hand and foot by her husband who died a few years back!....she’s not the brightest of people, sadly!) yes, miaow!

Hugs xxx

Been out to the farm for milk and eggs, the fields look so sodden, the floods have gone down a bit but some of the towns normal low spots are still flooded, think the worst is now further downstream at Bedford.

Stay safe, all

Hugs xxx

Looks like 2020 Has brought the best out of some of the Hubbies on here  

I had lots of amazing gifts and felt so blessed. Yesterday was just non stop and definitely more exhausting having to make sure we all kept a reasonable distance! However I am grateful that my family are safe and well and that we all had a lovely time. Also pleased that I got to facetime my lovely Buddy Jenny () and also a family friend who lives in Cambridge! It was so nice to see their smiling faces and to chat with them face to face albeit through an ipad! 

However today was probably the most precious moment of Christmas for me and the most humbling. We took a Christmas dinner with all the trimmings, piping hot with an extra tub of gravy across to a lady that has set up her own little bed in the doorway of an empty store near us! She was so grateful that we had thought of her and you could see how much those few minutes of human contact had meant! I wish we could do more, but knowing she has had at least one hot meal today was better than nothing!! 

Hope everyone has had a lovely day and has managed to relax. Sending lots of Love to all. Sal and LP xxx

Answers to first quiz 

1. Nine
2. Eight maids a-milking
3. Germany
4. Boxing Day
5. Dasher, Dancer and Donner
6. Norway
7. Four
8. Six
9. Clootie Dumplings
10. Carp

Quiz part 2 

1. What fruit can be stored alongside Christmas cake to keep it moist?
2. What name did Charles Dickens use instead of ‘chapter’ for the five sections of ‘A Christmas Carol’?
3. On a short animated film first broadcast on Christmas Eve 1995, who was framed for the crime of sheep rustling?
4. Where do poinsettias originate from?
5. In which country do people hide brooms away on Christmas Eve to stop them from being stolen by witches?
6. Which Christmas accessory is Tom Smith – a confectioner from London – credited with inventing in 1846?
7. What is the name of George Bailey’s guardian angel in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’?
8. Where was it ‘always winter but never Christmas’?
9. Who wrote the Bing Crosby hit ‘White Christmas’?
10. Which Christmas song was played in both German and English trenches on Christmas Eve 1914?

Have fun 

Hope you all managed to stay in your bubbles

That's what it is all about doing a simple thing of kindness not just at this time of year but all through the year xxx