Christmas Eve

Edward Bear slept in this morning until 7.30! Shame me and Simon have been awake since 4.45am and up since 6.30am – sigh.

The trip to PC World was eventful, Jack has learned that missing out a vital junction exit can add a least an hour and a half onto your journey time, especially when you have no idea where you are to be able to find yourself on the map in order to get to where you really want to be. But they found it in the end and came home with various gadgets and gizmos.

The additional hour and a half tour around the Peterborough Ring Road meant that swimming and dog walking were postponed until today.

There’s lots to do today – walk the dogs, wrap presents, make a start on the ‘going home presents’ for our group of ‘baby friends’ who are descending on us on Wednesday. These are the women and their husbands/partners whom I met online who were all pregnant at the same time as me. So we have Tamsin and Adam with Tabitha coming up from Bath (although they are actually coming up a day earlier than the others), Helen C (we call her Frank) and her daughter Robyn (her husband Lloyd can’t make it) coming down from York, Shonagh and Richard with Archie also coming down from Yorkshire and finally Helen and KB with Sebastian who are over from Norway!

We’ve met Helen, KB and co and Tam’ and Adam before but this will be the first time we are all together – it promises to be fun and perhaps just a little rowdy.

I must get on – but before I go here’s another picture for you. This is what we see out of the end kitchen window (the one behind Simon in the kitchen photo). Apparently people come from all over the world to see the tower (topped with a splendid octagonal lantern, flying buttresses and 12 pinnacles the blurb says) and 14th century stained glass windows.

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