Christmas 2005

Happy New Year everyone!

We're now back from our holidays and first of all its time to recount Christmas 2005 which was a fantastic day hosted by Carrie and I!!

We had Rach and Kel round and Christmas Eve we went Ice skating in Hampstead which was brilliant fun as part of our Chrissie present from Kel.

You'll be happy to know that there were no broken bones as a result of this outing! Before we left Rach was quite worried that she may have a fall and spend yet more time in the emergency room. As a result we had a conversation that went like this:

Rach: Oh god I'm going to break something.

Carrie: Haven't you ever skated before then Rach??

Rach: Uhh no.

* A distinctly evil laugh can be heard coming from Carrie's bedroom, followed by Rachel and I giggling in my room*

Carrie: Oh. Could you hear my evil laugh? *sounding disappointed*

Then that evening we got into the preparations for Christmas and had a couple of bottles of wine to help us along the way. That night we left out some chocolates and milk for Santa, and we have exclusive footage of him in the act of eating it....

He does appear to have been on a diet though..

We had our stockings and then a champagne brekkie and then got stuck into the presents under our mini, wonky tree.

We were all thoroughly thoroughly spoilt and Santa was very very good to us all!

Once we'd demolished all the pressies, Carrie and I put on our non-existent aprons and got into cooking the Christmas dinner, and I have to say we did an absolutely magnificent job. Those of you who remember my cooking (or lack thereof) should be suitably impressed by just how great a job we did. Nobody was poisoned and we managed to stuff and cook the Turkey right through!

We had, turkey and stuffing, Roast potatoes, Yorkshire puddings, parsnips, pumpkin, broccoli, beans, peas and carrots. We had gravy and cranberry sauce and pigs in blankets , vol au vents. Naturally we ate hardly any of it and had a fridge crammed with left overs.

We had an all round brilliant day, drank way too much ate way too much got spoilt, and then played cards and sang karaoke in the evening, and it was a great Christmas!

Then we flew out to Berlin and Barcelona to see in the New Year!