We managed to sleep late this morning, all the way to 6.30am. I know that's ridiculous, but that is a veritable lie-in for us nowadays. My cold is still with me, but other than a very blocked nose and a slightly sore throat I was ready for the events of the day.
First excitement included a large bowl of conflakes, pomegranates, blueberries, walnuts and ground wild millet with rice milk. I know it sounds peculiar, but I can assure you it was delicious. The wild millet is a recent addition, as I had it recommended by a fellow orienteer against joint pains. She said it helped her, so I'm having a go. As I had just two teaspoonfuls of it in that large bowlful I hardly noticed it.
The we fed the birds, lit the fire and went out into the sunshine. It was a beautiful day, above zero, no wind and lovely sunshine. The thin layer of snow started melting and it wasn't cold at all. Roy fetched a couple of wheelbarrowful of logs and I took some pictures and a video.
We also watched a bit of TV after which we were thinking of cooking our dinner when Alex called. They have just got up and Callum started unwrapping his presents. We sat with extreme delight watching him playing with the train set he got from us and then setting about unwrapping all the other presents too. He kept going back to the train set, he obviously loved it a lot.
Afterwards we quickly cooked and ate our Christmas dinner which consisted of: fillet steak for Roy, salmon with garlic. dill and lemon juice for me. The trimmings included potatoes, sprouts and beetroot as well as some of our home made garlic mayonnaise which had been a Grant family tradition for 30+ years. All this was washed down with champagne which I managed to mix with freshly squeezed pomegranate juice, it was truly scrumptious.
Later Stephen called and we had a nice chat with him and Lucy plus exchanged greetings with her mum Helen. Currently Roy is flaked out in front of the TV and I am soon to join him. Downton Abbey is tonight's treat, so there is still something to look forward to. Bye everybody!
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