Chrismukkah

Christmas eve was a blur, the food was phenomenal and the company almost as good as the food. The main thing is that I got pretty decent gifts even though I never had a list. We did have our tenant round who happens to be Jewish to celebrate with us European Chrismas style which she later said was very "festive" (I hope that was a good thing :)) and we never held back. Had the music going on the background with Wham and 'Boney M' giving it their Christmas all, Cam-er-as a flashing and Pedro in a santa suuuiiiit..

Below are samples of fun from our house and Christmas.


Our "lemon Christmas tree" with my presents underneath


The lounge and dining room on a rare quiet day

Edmund Blackadder, Esq.: Shall I begin the Christmas story?
George, the Prince Regent: Absolutely, as long as it's not that terribly depressing one about the chap who gets born on Christmas Day, shoots his mouth off about everything under the sun, and then comes a cropper with a couple of rum coves on top of a hill in Johnny Arab land.
Edmund Blackadder, Esq.: You mean *Jesus,* Sire...?
George, the Prince Regent: Yes, that's the fellow! Keep him out of it. He always spoils the X-mas atmos!


"And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more. Dr. Seuss"