Boxing Day was notable for a few reasons.....
...first Boxing Day isn't Boxing Day in America; it's a normal working day!! A bit of a shock as you can imagine. Of course I moaned about it to my new colleagues but they weren't interested especially as I couldn't even explain why Boxing Day is Boxing Day in the UK. It just is...innit....
...second the weather decided to change and we had a huge temperature swing of about 50 degrees fahrenheit and it actually....... rained! That was a nice Christmas gift for us, the Brits that we are. We know where we are with rain of course. We have umbrellas, we have anoraks...we can smile in the rain. Alas the very next day the temperature plummeted back to below zero (fahrenheit...) - so back we went into ski jackets, ski trousers, gloves, hats, ear warmers (THE most essential item of clothing) and boots. We take longer getting ready to go outside than we actually spend out there! Especially when the melted snow from the day before has been frozen and turned into a thick, impregnable sheet of ice that covers everything. The kids had a good laugh at me taking 30 attempts to get the car up the drive and into the garage
....and third Auntie Mel arrived. Anth and I made no pretense of dumping the kids on her! She knows she's not here on holiday! Louis especially is beside himself with excitement to have his Auntie Mel here - I might have to nick her passport to stop her leaving
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I would definitely get that passport Stu. We only mentioned the possibility of babysitting to Mel and next thing you know she's decided to leave Leeds!
Is that your mezzanine floor in the top picture?
It's our weekend place
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