A good Christmas

Despite  Christmas being a bit of a last minute emergency affair for us this year, it turned out to be a very good one.  It was a last minute affair because we had been intending to go to my MIL’s  this year, but she lives up North, and when the roads were bad with the snow it seemed a good idea to cancel rather than risk the journey.  Our central heating and hot water boiler had also chosen the week before Christmas to pack up and we were afraid of the house freezing and the pipes bursting while we were away.  So on 23rd I had to dash out and get ingredients for a Christmas dinner here. 

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