Ho, Ho, Ho, trimming the tree and all that jazz.

Time to drag a poor healthy tree into the house and burden its braches with baubles and tinsel.....we love it! Toby was instructed to remove Santa from his painful perch and restore the Angel at once......The pictures were taken just shortly before the tree gracefully bent over to a 45'angle and had to be shored up with the heaviest kitchen weights I have. It still has a bit of a list to it.

Freya's Thursday

First a musical end to The Nativity Play....then rush home to make truffles for Christmas Presents. In the morning Garret, Howard, Myrna and I joined with John, Dilla and others including the duke and young dukelets to plant bluebell bulbs for next years Bluebell Festival...they are already spectacular but a few more will be even better!

From dancing to running in just 10hrs

Change of pace and change of clothes for the inaugural Santa Sprint with jogscotland. A family event with a rather strange theme for this time of year. Toby full of unsocialble germs and so left home alone but the girls did brilliantly. Well done to all.

The bestest present!

Today I got a big box in the post addressed to "Fee" with "Merry Christmas, open now" I need no further encouragement...legitimate permission to open a present early and I am there with (christmas) bells on. Inside perfectly wrapped in large amounts of paper was one of the best and most thoughtful Christmas presents I have ever had.....a lovely hand crafted Yorkshire Pork pie. Maybe there is someone somewhere who would not appreciate it but not in this house. There is of course a history behind this as David The Deerstalker had said he would bring me up a pie at Christmas time but has had to cancel the trip(imminent arrival of puppies). I do love them and have never had such a beautuful one! Scotland is great but not good on pork pies.... I had never thought that I would get one made specially for me, my mind was on Ainsleys or a supermarket one so thank you very very much David!