Heron by moonlight

A pleasant but odd Christmas Day.

We are all missing Jack something proper - especially when we were making the Christmas Dinner because he'd always be circling seeing if he could help and snaffling the odd bits of food, while tucking into his red wine and keeping us entertained with tales of his latest adventures .

We were also missing my Mum and Dad who couldn't travel because of the weather so the kids only had one grandparent to pester this year.

Joe excelled himself by coming through at 1am in floods of tears saying "I'm distressed, I'm TOO excited" and it took a good few hours to get him calmed down and then the girls were up at 6am. So, after dinner and a long walk through the snow with the whippet I am about to crash in front of the Gruffalo and crack open a bottle of Edinburgh Gold.

Hope everyone has had a fine old time.