It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
This week was quite quiet apart from Wednesday morning when I fell down the basement stairs. What with me bouncing down the wooden stairs and then howling in pain Helen had no problem waking up and getting out of bed. I'm still suffering from the bruising but luckily no bones were broken and I won't be riding my bike for a while.
We picked up our Christmas tree this week and decided to go for a different style tree which looks a bit like cousin It from the Addams family. The drawback is that it is difficult to hang decorations (or chocolates) from the branches, but is is very pretty.
I took the opportunity to buy the last (I hope) Christmas presents this weekend, so with the tree up it should only be a case of delivering the last few presents, buying some stocking fillers and eating some mince pies before Christmas morning.
This weekend we popped round the corner to a party at Charles, Alex and Edward's house. It was great to meet a different group of people, even if a lot of them were pongos, and indeed such a varied group of people since I've been here, Brits, Aussies, Americans and French! The drink was great and the food was delicious especially the various pies, cakes and biscuits; I'm hoping that Alex will foist off some of the leftovers on Helen next time she goes round. It seemed that everybody had brought at least one child and it was quite hectic at times with children of various energy levels ran, crawled or sat around the house; my favourite (other than Edward of course) was Hector who was totally unfazed by all the activity around him and moved from crawling to guiding a push-a-long in patient circuits of the living room, dining room and kitchen.
Despite surviving the recent wet weather one of our sump pumps has failed and we are having to use our submersible pump to pump water from the defunct sump to the working one. This is working so far, I just hope this spell of relatively dry weather lasts!
We picked up our Christmas tree this week and decided to go for a different style tree which looks a bit like cousin It from the Addams family. The drawback is that it is difficult to hang decorations (or chocolates) from the branches, but is is very pretty.
I took the opportunity to buy the last (I hope) Christmas presents this weekend, so with the tree up it should only be a case of delivering the last few presents, buying some stocking fillers and eating some mince pies before Christmas morning.
This weekend we popped round the corner to a party at Charles, Alex and Edward's house. It was great to meet a different group of people, even if a lot of them were pongos, and indeed such a varied group of people since I've been here, Brits, Aussies, Americans and French! The drink was great and the food was delicious especially the various pies, cakes and biscuits; I'm hoping that Alex will foist off some of the leftovers on Helen next time she goes round. It seemed that everybody had brought at least one child and it was quite hectic at times with children of various energy levels ran, crawled or sat around the house; my favourite (other than Edward of course) was Hector who was totally unfazed by all the activity around him and moved from crawling to guiding a push-a-long in patient circuits of the living room, dining room and kitchen.
Despite surviving the recent wet weather one of our sump pumps has failed and we are having to use our submersible pump to pump water from the defunct sump to the working one. This is working so far, I just hope this spell of relatively dry weather lasts!
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