London one-way!

Okay, so I haven’t been around a lot – can I help it if I like to keep myself busy?!

Speaking of busy, we got around to a heap of Christmas markets over the festive season. Our favourite were the Bath ones, where we also got to see the Roman Baths and Jane Austen centre, and Stonehenge in the pouring rain.

We took the Eurostar to France to visit the Lille Christmas markets, a nice day out which involved a lot of fruit tarts and fresh moulle (mussels) and ended with us seeking refuge in the movies watching Changeling with French subtitles, because it was too cold to do anything else. We all had to huddle around the heaters at the train station in the evening warming our hands, it seriously looked like we were a group of homeless people all rugged up knowing that once the heat was gone that was it.

We also got to see the last of the Birmingham Christmas markets but Birmingham was fun for another reason – we got to go caroling! I haven’t been caroling since I was in my early tweens at primary school and we all had to get up as a group and sing. Our preferred activity is sitting at Vecmamma and Papa’s singing along with Humphrey B. Bear where no one else can hear us. The carols were held on the Bournville green, yes people, the same Bournville of Bournville chocolate where THE Cadbury factory is and the Cadbury family still live. I got excited.

I was going to spend Christmas in London working, but Lija talked me into thinking that wasn’t the best idea, so I joined her in Birmingham with Gill and Chris and the rest of the family. We had Christmas dinner at a nice restaurant that was full of streamers and party poppers and balloons. Our table was easily the noisiest one there, with flying balloons zooming around the room into fellow revellers. At one stage a gentleman walked over from several tables away to deliver our deflated balloon back to us, hehe.

I spent the weekend before Christmas with Gran and Pops in Jersey. It was a fly-by but we had a nice Christmas dinner out with Uncle Mark and Aunty Karen, Aunty Betty, my cousin Michelle and her fiancee Ian.

With all the chocolates and mulled wine and pudding over Christmas, what comes next?!

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