Christmas

It was another odd Christmas day. Jo went to church and Ross and I got ready for her return and then we all drove out to Inverurie where Carole had laid on a light lunch for us. We had a nice time with them - Luca was great and it was our first sight of tiny little Sima, Gary's new Jack Russell. Luca grazed on Jo's knee:




One of Carole's presents from Gary was her Man U shirt with her favourite player's name on it. As usual, Carole insisted that her face wouldn't be seen on camera:

and here's a first - Luca took this photo of me - rather good, eh?:

Gary wore his pinny getting ready for the afternoon's work in the kitchen:

Ross got pally with tiny little Sima:

and then he helped erect Luca's garage:

Luca's main present was Elmo:

We drove home in the gathering gloom to have our Christmas dinner, but when we got there, both Ross and I felt nauseous and had to go and lie down for an hour. We both got up eventually and managed to eat some of our dinner, but it didn't seem right. Shame for Jo, who, for a change, was fine - but she was the only one! I even missed Lucy's Skype - I tried to call her back later but no answer.

Kelly and Barry called to wish us Merry Christmas - and we'll see Kelly and Craig tonight of course.

Still feel a bit nauseous this morning and the tingling in my head hasn't gone away yet. I think Carole's theory of blocked sinuses may have some relevance - I think I may have an infection and if it doesn't clear soon I may need an antiobiotic to clear it.

Calling Dr Lucy

Dear Dr Lucy,

Can you help please? The left side of my head is tender - the eyeball is sore, like somebody is sticking pins in it and the left top of my head is very sensitive to the touch, like all the nerve ends are exposed. Is it terminal? (It's OK - Jo tested for strokes and I passed!).

Anyway, what have I done to offend Cade? He is not replying to any of my blog photo quizzes. I'm going to try just one more time. Where is this?:

(Clue - it's in USA).

When I had a couple of days off ill recently, it gave me the chance to watch Series 1 of Gavin and Stacey - Michael had given me the DVD. I had never previously watched it, but quite enjoyed the series, so when I noticed that BBC HD was showing all 7 episodes of Series 2 on Sunday night, we watched a couple of them and recorded the rest - or so I thought. Unfortunately, the last 3 recordings failed, so here we are, stuck in the middle of Series 2 with a Christmas Special to come tomorrow evening.

Monday

Kelly - that's fine about Saturday - if you and Craig want to go through to Peterhead then, you can use my car - Ross will take me to the football and back. That leaves Sunday afternoon/evening free for a family meal.

Foolishly tried to go up town at lunchtime - major mistake! Not much sign of recession here.

Weekend

Details of a busy weekend can be found on my other blogs - http://bsvgolf.blogspot.com/ and http://bvetsfootballgroup.blogspot.com/

Gary and Ross want to come with me to see the Aberdeen - Hearts match on Saturday, but Jo reminded me that Kelly and Craig will be here and she wants to have a big family meal some time when they're up. The key question is, when will Kelly and Craig be going through to Peterhead? If it's on Saturday, then that's fine - we can have a meal at ours on the Sunday. If not, we'll have to change plans - but no sweat either way.