After all the wrapping stress it’s the fun of delivering presents tonight. First on the rounds was Martin and Fhai’s. for a few moments of quiet with the tree lights on, a mug of tea and some chocolates to eat while we talked about plans for Christmas and who would be spending it where.

The peace was soon broken when Helen brought the kids back from her house. Joanne was checking all the labels, Richard was switching from showing me the latest model made of Brio to peaking under the edges of the paper on all the presents to see what he might have.

The only way to calm them seemed to be to let them take my presents from them back up the hill to my house. I’d forgotten that they hadn’t seen the sheepskin rug which L and I had bought on Sunday to go in front of the fire. With the presents abandoned they concentrated on making a nest with the new cushions from Fhai and rolling from side to side on it saying “hmm nice”.

Maybe after Christmas I’ll get a chance to try it myself !.