Day 53 - So this is Christmas

Here I am looking festive... its a very D.I.N.K-y (not to be confused with DKNY) Xmas... that stands for Double Income No Kids. We have our Bay Tree in a pot decorated with Warehouse Xmas lights, the five Xmas cards we received strung up on the chimney and all the presents you see are ones we have to give to other people! Except for one for the photographer and one for me.

The photographer is insisting we stay awake until midnight so we can open the presents the moment it turns Christmas Day. Those of you who know me well will laugh at the thought that staying awake until midnight would ever be a struggle for me... oh but how I've changed!

As I wrote about in yesterday's blog we gave away the Santa's Sack this morning . I arrived at the prize winners house at 7am, only to be greeted by Nige, one of the hosts of the breakfast show, to tell me that the Mother of the house had gone into labour and was at the hospital giving birth!!!!! It was a very special morning to say the least!

I have a song that seems to run on loop around this time of year... and no it is not Snoopy's Xmas, no matter how many times that is inflicted on our ears. It is John Lennon's song... "so this is Christmas and what have you done?"

"Um... worn my entire wardrobe and written about it in a most self-indulgent way inflicting it on anyone who would listen slash had the misfortune to be my friend on Facebook?"

Doesn't quite have the same 'Iambic Pentameter' does it? Next year's spark of madness challenge must be something more community minded I feel!

Happy Christmas - a big smooch to you all!