Christmas Day

Well, Christmas Day has started off differently from most.

4am:  Matthew was working last night and went out for drinks afterwoods.  He got home around 4am with a drunk mate in tow who needed somewhere to sleep.  So at 4am Matthew is organising a mattress and sleeping bag for him.  I was more concerned about his friend being sick during the night, but everything was ok.  Karyn got them up at 8am because we thought that Joel's parents would be wanting him home for Christmas morning.

9am:  Despite that fact that we are in the middle of a drought and that we've been suffering from 35 degree heat for the past few days, today we wake up to rain and 23 degree temperature.  We had been invited to a friend's house for Christmas dinner that was being held outside with lots of people invited.  Fortunately we had decided to have our lunch here first so we don't have to worry about the rain ruining our plans.

Matthew also left it to 4am to wrap his presents.  As you can see from what he handed me.  And yes, this is before I tried to open it.

Matthew just had enough energy to open his presents.  He then went back to bed.

We got to wear our matching Hawaiian outfits (her suggestion - not mine). Until Karyn spilt some beetroot dip down her dress.

Fay's new puppy that she bought as a Christmas present to herself.  Poor thing.










11:30am:  I've just had to stand in the rain to put the leg of pork in the barbeque.  Fortunately it's got a lid.

12:30pm:  It's harder than normal to get the barbeque to the right temperature.  I think the constant rain falling on the lid is causing it to lose heat.  I've just added a chicken to the barbeque.

1:30pm.  My mother-in-law's dog just chewed a hole in our carpet.

2:00pm.  Lunch.  I can't drink because we have to go to Penny's this afternoon and, as usual, I am the "designated driver".  This year I tried hard to avoid overeating.  I succeeded.  I had some of everything and not too much of anything.  The Christmas pudding was fantastic:  you can never add too much brandy.

4pm.  Off to Penny's.  Fay is having a nanna-nap instead.  Matt is playing World of Warcraft on his new quad-core, twin-screen computer - it would take the end of the world to get him off it.

6pm.  Back from Penny's.  Karyn and Penny were having champagne with raspberry liqueur in it. As the designated driver, I stuck to Pepsi Max.

6:30pm.  Dog has chewed a second hole in carpet.   May have fatal accident in the morning.

7:30pm.  Karyn & Fay were yawning and went to bed.

1:00am.  I went to bed.

3am.  Karyn went downstairs and told Matthew to get off computer and go to bed.