So Christmas here was lovely. Just me and Paul and the cats. No meltdowns or stress on the day. Last year we started a new tradition of a Christmas Eve box and we did the same this year. I think it helps regulate my excitement and means that I’m not up at 4am on Christmas Day!
In 1981 my girl-friend was staying in the house of a friend of mine and one evening my friend's wife asked us to "baby-sit" the two stray Siamese cats they had adopted as she had a social engagement and to make sure we put them in the garden if we left the house. About an hou...