Merry Christmas wishes to you all. For the first time ever, my husband’s family and mine will all be together on Christmas Day. I always wonder if it will be the last Christmas we share with our ailing grandparents, I love hearing their stories of old when so little meant so much at Christmas. The important thing is being together, and showing some tolerance.
I send you my love and warm wishes for the festive season.
Sounds awesome!
Elle, wishing A most merry xmas to you and your close ones
Great post ellee, I particularly like the pic and wonder if it is an altar piece? Pip and the poppets wish you and yours a very merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas to you too, Ellee.
Ellee: I hope that you will savor those moments together! Merry Christmas!!!!
A beautiful biblical picture showing the true meaning of Christmas. Well done, Ellee.
Happy Christmas!
And a very Merry Xmas to you and yours, Ellee.
Merry Christmas to you, nice lady!
Have a wonderful time Ellee and hope no one fights (too much!)
Merry Christmas Ellee. I hope you all have a lovely lovely day and a restful afternoon nap!
Happy Christmas Ellee! The swans will be magical!
Hey, what’s all this about Darcey? Are we really going to lose our beautiful English Rose?
no no no Ellee, it’s the other way round: with an Italian sly Capello managing the England squad, we’ll make sure to keep the Cup in case of an Englang-Italy match!
just kidding of course: I’m sure he’ll manage fairly and professionally, even against his own country, much better than Sven…
but why the hell can’t you get a good manager from your own country? you Brits invented football, you have good players, so why this crisis you need help from foreign managers?!?
apologies, I’ve just realised I misspelt EnglanG, I obviously meant EnglanD.
Merry xMas again and kisses and best wishes for your family reunion
Have a great day Ellee and catch up again soon x x
Happy Christmas to you and your family.
To you and yours too, Ellee.
Merry Christmas to you and all your family. Hope you have a lovely day.
Merry Christmas to you and your family Ellee and I wish you a very Happy New year -(Sicily here we come….) XXX
It is so enriching to have these family occasions as one entire unit, enjoy it.
Have a great Christmas Ellee.
Maalie, the swan feed is so beautiful and I have borrowed a photographer’s zoom lens to take some great shots with my Nikon.:
http://www.wwt.org.uk/event/238/435/swan_feeds.html
And yes, I was never fortunate like you to meet Darcy Bussell, let alone take her out for dinner and own her ballet shoes. She will be our loss, and Simon’s gain in Ausie:
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22968709-5013110,00.html
JaneJill, we can make it happen, let’s go for it. Sicily, here we come.
I hope everyone has a great Christmas, but my thoughts particularly are for those who have lost loved ones, for those who are lonely. Christmas is not fun for everyone.
Merry Christmas to you and your family dear Ellee. It is lovely that you will all be together.
Merry Christmas to the Seymour household! Hope you have a wonderful day! Justin/X
That sounds a bit scary Ellee. Hope it went well. We had a quiet time in our new house.
Christmas Day was lovely, though sadly no time for church in the morning because my in-laws turned up unexpectedly with a shiny new bike for David. We went to my sister’s house in Wisbech and her home was decorated so beautifully, she was a perfect hostess.
Today it is my turn, I shall be cooking for everyone, at least 16. I’ve already prepared my pigs in blankets. We shall be having a large loin of pork and leg of lamb as a change from turkey. I know I shall look forward to a rest tomorrow, and my bird watching in the afternoon at the Welney Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust.
Ellee – so glad you and yours had a lovely day and I hope all others enjoyed Christmas too, I always look on Christmas as the birth of new hope. I’ve been showing my father Rebecca’s pics and was pleased to see you’ve been having fun with your camera too – I hope your tooth hasn’t been giving you too much trouble. Dad has promised me a play with his new Nikon and I found the link to the swan feeding most interesting. Sounds like a great afternoon at the wildfowl trust
Very merry Christmas to you and all your family, Ellee. Hope your Boxing Day feast was a great success.
Merry Christmas to you!
Love and wishes for 2008 to you, dear friend.
and showing some tolerance.
Just ’some tolerance’? What happened to goodwill to all men?
Sim-O, you are absolutely right. This was certainly tested to the limit. My family turned up 1 3/4 hours late for dinner due to car problems and didn’t even phone me, but I didn’t bat an eyelid when they finally arrived and managed to serve two sittings of hot dinners to my family and neighbours.
I forgot to mention in comment 30 that my husband and two sons went to a football match in the afternoon while I slaved over a stove and cooked dinner for 16. I think I showed plenty of goodwill, and it was not done grudgingly.