Life saver

This year I treated myself to some card holders and after the previously blipped trials of putting them together, I'm very happy with them. With two cats in the house the cards are forever lying scattered on the floor. Cleo particularly likes pushing the tent shaped ones along with her nose till they fall off the end of whatever shelf they are on. But no longer, now the cards are Cleo proof, perhaps!
Today my target was to get the Christmas Cake iced which I have done. The decoration will be done another day but the base icing is now on.
I realised I had no red fondant for the decoration, so I mixed the icing with some so called red food colouring only to discover it is actually pink. Nothing daunted and ignoring all rules that say that you cannot make a primary colour I added drops of yellow until I ended up with a more or less red shade. Red colouring is now on the shopping list.
I wrapped K's birthday presents ready to hand over to her tomorrow along with her festive loo roll and kitchen paper. It's good to know that I will not be the only person maintaining the family tradition of sneaking into the bathroom and kitchen at midnight on Christmas Eve to switch the everyday rolls for those with Santa on them!
That's usually the task which comes after putting Baby Jesus into his manger! The kings usually makes it into the hall in Christmas Day too!
After hearing the news from Boris and Nicola tonight we decided on a carry out from the Loon Fung to cheer us up. As I've said before, I've counted my blessings throughout this Pandemic, especially that my daughters and their families are in walking distance. I do feel for the girls' other grandparents who haven't seen them since January. They had planned on meeting on the 27th to do a present swap at a service station on the M6. Not now though with the border closed.
Keep safe and well folks. Not the news we wanted but it somehow feels inevitable.