Retrospective 1

Christmas was a fun time! We headed merrily off to Devon on the 23rd and suprisingy found the roads largely uncongested with just the one rta to impede our progress. Stayed with my parents and my sister also joined the merry throng. It was the first Christmas in their new house so an extra buzz and finally got the girls off to sleep Christmas Eve so Santa could deliver the stockings (at 3am so Santa was not v. Impressed!). The mince pie and carrot were also duly dispatched to add proof positive of said visitation.
Christmas Day was uncoordinated and we generally drifted through opening presents, going to church and eating when all the food was finally cooked. Mum's oven decided that whatever the thermostat indicated would only be an arbitrary figure resulting in a cooked turkey and everything else still raw - still, they do recommend you allow meat to stand before carving...
Went walking on Dartmoor, played Uno extreme, watched Shrek 1 & 2 (girls got 2 on DVD) plus one evening my sister and I escaped to watch my new Bill Bailey DVD on her laptop as didn't feel the parents would enjoy - we did though!
A pleasant afternoon and evenings sodjurn to Plymouth to see my brother and his wife who had been in Wales with her family and then it was time to head home to London.
All in all a good time was had by all.