The grinch is good too.

Good afternoon all! I've just woken up and made some tea, it is very cold!!

Hey Rebecca!
It is very cold!

Hi Rebecca. How are you?

I'm okay thank you, just watching tv trying to keep warm. I might do some toast in a bit.

How are you both?

I’m ok thanks.

Ive just had a shower
Now watching im a celeb

I just watched that, despicable me is on now. I like this film.

Despicable me is good!
Ive watched it so many times@

Decided against toast, put pizza on instead xD

What's everyone else eating tonight?

Oooo lucky you!
Pizza is life

Im having my stuffed mushrooms.
Carer is currently here.
Annoying because muppets Christmas carol has just started!

Oh gosh I used to LOVE Muppets Christmas carol!! I've never seen it on freeview though so I haven't been able to watch it in years :/ I hope you get to watch at least some of it!!

Yeah she left eventually!
Its on freeview now!

I had my cheddar and bacon stuffed mushrooms and they were soooo nice!
Definitely getting those again!

Oh I missed it :( hopefully it'll be on again and I'll catch it. I'm watching strictly come dancing now.
How's everyone's evening going?

Hi all. I’m home from my dad’s house. I think I’ll make a cuppa. Just had a quick shower and washed my hair, so I feel nice and clean.

It will probably be on again at some point!

Im watching pirates of the Caribbean now.

Being clean is a nice feeling!

It’s usually on at Christmas Eve.

I don’t know what I’m going to watch. Probably more of my mad fat diary.

I have a funny story.

My dad locked himself in his own car. He was tidying the back seat, sat in it, shut the door, then remembered he had the child proof locks on. He was banging on the door for passerby’s to let him out, but they thought he was strange so just walked past. Ten years later, he figured out a way to open the windows and open the door himself. Hilarious!!!!

I'm watching Blue Planet now

Haha, that sounds awesome Lorraine!

Blue planet sounds good.

I’ve already jumped into bed with my hot water bottles. Cold tonight.

Haha thats so funny Lorraine!!

Im watching men in black 3 now
I've just gone to get my Christmas stuff out of the airing cupboard and found Jasmine's first sleep suit!
Its so tiny!

Aww that’s so sweet. Something nice to keep.

Yep :)
Its a lovely one from John Lewis too!
I knew I'd kept it but I forgot where it was!

It must seem like she’s growing so fast. How old is she now?

Way too fast!
She's 5 now.

That does seem fast. She’s at a good age for enjoying Christmas. She’ll need to write her letter to Santa.

That's the perfect age for Christmas!!

I've already install my Christmas presents for my mum so I don't have to stress about it now!

I’m going Christmas shopping this week. It’s stressing me out. I hate shopping.

Thats the only reason I enjoy christmas tbh!
Because she gets so excited about it and I love seeing her all full of wonder!
Even if she did wake me up at 5am last year to open presents!

I won't be able to get everyone presents this year so it'll just be for Jasmine, my sister and one of my brothers because its his birthday as well

Haha 5am. I think we all did that as kids. I remember getting up super early too.

Yep so did I!
Its ok though. Its lovely to see her so happy!
And we have scambled eggs and smoked salmon for breakfast with champagne and set up new toys and stuff. I love it!

Sounds good. And fun. I’ll be spending Christmas with my sister, Dad and uncle.

That sounds good.
Do you have any traditon type things that you do every year?

No. It’s really hard without my mum. Her birthday was on Christmas Day, so we always used to have birthday cake in the evening.

Sorry to hear that.
It must be really hard for you all

It is, but my dad is trying to make it good. He’s doing the cooking, and we will have champagne no doubt.
Do you have any traditions?

That sounds like it will be nice.
Is he a good cook?

We have a couple.
putting a carrot and a mince pie out on Christmas eve for Rudolph and father Christmas.
Playing a board game.
Champagne breakfast with scrambled eggs and smoked salmon.
Although last year was a bit disastrous. We played monopoly and my step dad is a lawyer so he was trying to apply contract law to the purchasing of places on the board :eyeroll:
Me and Chels have a Christmas thing where we go to Norwich Christmas market and have our own Christmas dinner and films and board games!
Its this weekend actually!

Im off to bed.
Got an early start for college. Ugh!
Night night!

Those sound like good traditions and it’s great you also have a Christmas with Chels. Sounds fun.

He’s a good cook now. Mum used to do the cooking, so he had to start cooking for himself and he’s done a good job of it.

Goodnight. Sleep well.

Urgh, I’m wide awake.

Hope you managed to get some sleep Lorraine!

It is dark and cold and pouring down with rain!

Good afternoon all, hope you're having an okay kinda day. Hope you got some sleep Lorraine!! I'm sitting watching tv with my cat, I don't want to go out today so I'm hoping my mum wants to stay in too otherwise I'll have to go out with her!

Good morning everyone :) How are you doing? Beckie hows the wrist? Hi Lorainne how are you doing? I dont have any Christmas traditions. Not been such a good time for me, mum has been yelling all day, been uneasy and stressed out about it. Triggers my coping techniques which are less than idea. I need a break.....sigh

Ah I gotta go out after all! Bad times. It's so cold out there!

I finished college early so am home!

It is very cold.
Been raining lots here too

I got some sleep thanks.

I’m fine thanks Aoife. I’m sorry you are having a rough time.

I’m out the flat again. Having a pot of tea in a different coffee shop from usual, then off to Morrisons.

Well done for getting out again Lorraine!

Thanks Beckie.

I’m back home now. I treated myself to a taxi home because I had two big bags of shopping. I had to buy lots of boring stuff like toiletries, toilet roll, cleaning stuff etc. It was rather bulky to carry.

It is difficult to shop sometimes when you don't drive!
Taxi was a good idea

It was quite cheap anyway.

How are you Beckie? Did you have a good day at college?

Im ok thanks
It was an ok day. Was a bit zoned out.
At least we finished early!