I had a busy week at work, finishing at Wexham Park Hospital midweek then building up to Christmas at the end of the week at Wallingford. I finished booking accommodation for the trips ahead and wrapping presents, organised malaria tablets for India/Nepal, organised boxes for shipping things home and finished babysitting earlier in the week. Roger arrived on Tuesday and Andrea and Chris came down for a roast pork joint with crackling on Thursday which was good fun! I helped Tom and Mary book some of their travels and then Laura arrived on Christmas eve! Tom, Rog and I drove out to the airport to collect her then we all had a massive roast gammon for dinner which was amazing! We had a very mild week weather wise which was great, managed to get some runs and dog walking in. We had a great time of Christmas day, everyone loved their presents and we had an amazing Turkey and stuffing for lunch / dinner, plenty to drink and an awesome Tiramisu cake with Baileys and Christmas cake with brandy sauce for desert - there was much snoozing after this! We finished the day off with a big game of scrabble - definitely a Christmas to remember!
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| Nan enjoying a massive mince pie covered in custurd |
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| Nan's impressive Birthday Alstroemeria's that have come out just in time for Christmas |
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| Tom, Roger and Nan playing scrabble, being supervised by Grampa while waiting for Laura to arrive |
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| Tom, Rog and Nan playing scrabble |
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| Grampa supervising |
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| Nan very proud of her Alstroemeria's |
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| Christmas decorations |
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| The massive pile of pressies under the tree |
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| Laura's arrival drinks - showing grampa pics from home |
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| Everyone relaxing by the fire |
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| Rog and Nan celebrating Laura's arrival |
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| Thea and Tom celebrating Laura's arrival |
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| Grampa and I |
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| Roast gammon dinner for Christmas Eve - amazing! |
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| Our MASSIVE turkey! |
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| Nan and Thea's amazing stuffing |
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| Laura, Tom, and Thea walking the dogs on Christmas morning |
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| Laura, Tom, Rog and Thea walking the dogs on Christmas morning |
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| The dogs enjoying a muddy puddle... |
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| Codie and Laura |
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| Nan admiring the pressies |
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| Laura enjoying her new hat from Thea |
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| Grampa liked Laura's new hat too... |
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| Grampa admiring his new socks! |
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| Christmas lunch! |
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| Grampa, Laura, Thea, Nan, Roger and Tom enjoying Christmas lunch |
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| Grampa, Laura, Thea, Nan, Roger and Tom enjoying Christmas lunch |
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| Rog and Tom tucking in... |
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| Tom and Grampa |
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| Nan |
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| Nan sleeping off Christmas lunch with her new jacket |
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| Rog sleeping off Christmas lunch... |
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| Nan, Tom, Rog and Laura playing scrabble on Christmas day night |
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| Grampa wrecked after a big day... |
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| Spikey enjoying some attention |
