This morning I was treated to breakfast in bed - what a nice surprise. I had got up earlier but had gone back to bed and was still there at 9 am when Jo awoke. We had watched the Frost Nixon movie last night (with Ross) after Gary, Carole and Luca had left - and after the obligatory Xmas Corrie - that was close for Kevin and Mollie, wasn't it? The movie was pretty good I thought - particularly the actor who played Nixon. We also watched the Catherine Tate Christmas Carol special - with loads of guests - David Tennant is everywhere just now - and it closed with Madness doing Baggy Trousers.
Anyway, working backwards, Christmas lunch was great - only got this one rather grainy photo, however:
Definitely need a new camera! Carole did the trifle - and it was great:
Jo's pavlova is just behind it. The turkey was great - massive it was, too - many days of eating left:
Earlier on, Gary and I had taken Luca across the road to the 3rd hole of the golf course for his first experience of sledging. I've got a few videos to show you, but can't remember how to insert them in the new blog editor - have they done away with this feature, or am I just having a bit of a Senior Moment? Anyway, here's some photos to be going on with - firstly Gary and Luca boarding for the first run:
The start of the run is fairly gentle, but, as it gets down nearer the bridge over the burn, it gets steeper - and the snow conditions were perfect for sledging, so it was important to control the speed of the sledge - and not just for Luca's sake!
Gary and I each managed to take Luca down twice - on the last run, he said to me "faster, faster, Grandad" - so I did - and he bawled again. Back up the hill - "want to go see Grannie now" - but not before we tried to teach him about snowball fighting. He wasn't keen at first - he had no gloves on - but he asked for my gloves and this encouraged him to try to pick the snow up:
He tried to throw one at his Dad:
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