One week to Christmas! It matters little what age we are, Christmas will always hold an appeal. Obviously only up until you open the present I gave you, then the familiar anti-climactic feeling kicks in...
I wasn't originally intending to post a blog today, as Carole was intending to do so. However, she's struggling with another bug and is taking a "Torry holiday" from work to recover. I guess with her curled up in bedI'm going to have to cook tea/burn down the kitchen (delete as applicable) once I get home tonight. Healthy it is unlikely to be.
Partly due to my misguided anticipation of Christmas, I checked the Christmas TV schedules this morning - but there's not much on. The best I can see is "Top Of The Pops Christmas Special" (which I assume Dad will tape and send to Lucy), "Best Ever Christmas Films" and "Monsters Inc". The latter I'm sure Luca will thoroughly enjoy, although obviously Carole and myself are far too mature for such childish entertainment.
Yes, the last statement is a very clear outright lie.
Other than that, Luca's gran and granda will pop over, as well as his Uncle Ross. Hopefully we'll get a chance to have a family Christmas Day walk too, although this is wholly dependant on Carole's Christmas cooking stress levels! I would help but she may not be too appreciative. Although I could just simplify the process and produce my speciality for Christmas dinner - Yorkshire Puddings (cooked from frozen obviously).
News on Luca today? Carole took him to "Hoodles" yesterday, where he's still showing trepidation toward anything which sits more than 2 ft off the ground. It seems he's inherited his dad's fear of heights! We're going to "up the ante" on such activities however, in order to loosen him up. We've still got the swimming issue to face too...
I've ru out of photo's of Luca would you believe, hence the rather sparse look to todays blog. I will have this situation rectified by tomorrow however.
**Useless fact of the day - Meat has always featured at the centre of traditional Christmas feasts, although it is has not always been in the form of turkey. The act of serving a large roasted joint of meat at Christmas is believed to originate from ancient sacrificial rites to appease the gods and hopefully ensure a sufficient harvest in the following year. Popular meats used for early celebratory purposes were beef, mutton, pork, peacocks and swans. King James I can be thanked for the emergence of turkey as he introduced it during the seventeenth century for the important reason that it was far kinder to his delicate digestive system! Of course not everyone could afford it, and the poor had to make do with goose**
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