366 Photos - 360 - That was Christmas Day.

[byslantedlight]

Well posting comments may be really slow at the moment, but posting pictures is virtually instantaneous - wow!

Christmas day started here with grey skies and rain, which was okay cos I contributed to the death of the planet by putting on all the pretty fairylights I have (bad, bad, bad...) and then the sun came out, and it was glorious and even warm.

Of course about an hour ago I heard a very odd roaring sound outside, and when I went to look, I was all but slapped in the face by rain and wind (which didn't at all sound like rain and wind!), but that's also okay, cos I have my flannel (sorry, brushed cotton) sheets on the bed, and my hot water bottle. Not that it's cold, actually, just blustery.

Anyway - it's been a nice wee day. I nipped around to Landlord to take them some fudge, so I even got to speak out loud to real people, and then there were lots more people on lj than I'd been expecting (hurrah!) and I was busy with the Christmas day posts and making Christmas dinner (delish Christmas nut roast from Riverford - I was worried they'd changed the recipe from last year, but they hadn't), and opening what turned out to be lots of dvds and a quilting book, and coffee (that's me sorted *g*) and then watching all the telly. I even watched Frozen (well, most of it)!

Oh! Doctor Who! *g* I liked it! I usually do, I'm pretty uncritical when it comes to the Doctor generally having a good time, and now that wossername is gone, it's all good. I had a brief frown when it turned out he was mourning a loved one - but of course that was River Song, cos that's the last time we saw the Doctor! Anyway, jolly good. *g* Anyone else watch?

Hope you all had a lovely day - I can't believe that's Christmas for another year!

Comments

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Lol - frantic nephews opening presents are what Christmas is all about, I guess...! Though I remember my wee nephew when I was over at Christmas - he actually enjoyed opening each present and then wanted to play with it, but his mum wanted them all opened at once, and so kept him doing that, and he was almost in tears about that - I kept wanting to say Just let him play with them!

I think the Christmas tv thing is less because nothing's open and more because everyone's supposed to go and visit family for the day, and spend time with them - often when they've not done so for a whole year in between. I think the idea of the tv is that it's a few calming moments through the day to stop everyone getting too emotionally fraught with each other! Otherwise it's all talking to each other and playing games with each other and things...! Generally the morning is all about getting the Christmas meal ready, then there's the huge meal, then clearing it up, then a Christmas Day walk to "walk it off", and then telly when everyone comes home all tired out from the day!