Almost finished for the day at work, a quick hospital appointment for one of my girls this afternoon then out with all my friends for Christmas beers tonight (including one friend whose wife is just coming out the other side of some pretty tough treatments for a recurring brain tumour and she is on the mend so we are celebrating that too).
Tomorrow my wife is having our girls for the day to keep out of my hair as I start to prepare Christmas Dinner – cooking for 12 this year – so I will have the festive tunes on and no dubt partake of a couple as I chop up vegetables.
Then tomorrow night we will have one last push to whip our girls into a frenzy of excitement (they are only 2.5 so not totally understanding it all yet) by putting out port, mince pies, carrots and reindeer dust (a new one on me).
Then up nice and early christmas morning to put the turkey on and lay a fire in the stove (I don’t care how warm it is – the fire is going on). Then a nice morning with our girls waiting for everyone to arrive in the afternoon.
Then sit down for a meal, remember my dad and mum who have both passed on but would love to be at ours for this big meal, then cracking open the last 5 bottles of Mouton Cadet left over from our wedding in 2006.
Then waddle to the front room and get stuck in to pork pies, pickled onions and left over turkey all evening.
Songs: Slade, Bing Crosby, Pogues and loads of kiddie ones that the 5 children present will be able to sing along to.