Tiny Tuesday: festive

With thanks to carolinav I wish you all a very happy Wigilia. 

Although I no longer celebrate Christmas as a religious festival of course I know about the Christian (not to mention pagan) origins of the season. This tiny (maybe an inch high) nativity scene is one of my decorations. It claims to be 'Handmade in Peru'  but who knows. I think I bought it in an Oxfam Shop and that must have been at least 40 years ago. It doesn't stand out but it has its place all the same. When our children were young we had an actual handmade nativity - a shoe box in which we placed a variety of home made characters and some of the toy farm animals we had. It disintegrated many moons ago.

We usually have a Wigilia(ish) meal  with the Glasgow family (our grandson's mum is Polish) but not today. Both she and our son are working so  Wigilia will be just the three of them. All being well we'll see them tomorrow though. 

My grandson had a starting role (Joseph) in his class nativity play last week so this blip feels all the more appropriate. 

We always have a fishy meal on Christmas Eve. When I was catering for a crowd it was fish pie. Tonight it will be a fish soup and it will be just Cameraman, our daughter and me. However I will maintain some of my former traditions by making mince pies this afternoon while I listen to the carols at 3pm on the radio. Before that I have to go to the supermarket which I expect to be madly busy but I don't need to buy much. I hope to escape unscathed. 

However you spend today I hope it is a good one.