So Here it is Merry Christmas.

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So here it is Merry Christmas, just like Slade sung in 1973.

It is a cold, bright day today, a good Christmas eve, with snow on the ground.

So cold that Richie is having porridge before going out and doing the shopping.

The dogs love this cold, sharp weather and have been playing happily ever since we woke up, it is funny watching them playing with each other.

Marleen can tease Spike so well and so easily by suddenly taking his kong (toy) and casually playing with it in front of him, then she may give it back or she will play with another toy, just putting her paw on the kong everytime Spike gets close.

This has been going on for ages now, only to be briefly interrupted by them being taken around the block.

Richie is very busy today, hope he keeps coming by and feeding me little titbits.

He brought the mail and opened several Christmas cards from friends which were very nice, one of the nicest cards was from Richie’s sister Audrey.

Very touching to get her card, she surprised us by sending us flowers and wine for our wedding anniversary last Saturday.

It has been very sweet getting to know Audrey, she heard from one of their brothers, Peter that I had been diagnosed with MS and I had a blog.

So she looked for me and surprised me by finding my blog and leaving a sweet message in the guest book.

He has been extremely busy, now he is relaxing for 5 minutes and playing his banjo, before going to the shops.

Hope you are all having a good Christmas eve, I do love the Winter Solstice and the winter feast, good for us to enjoy and bond wih each other.

I am very much enjoying the moments today, hope you do too.

Day After The Winter Solstice.

Slept quickly and soundly only to be woken up by the dog about an hour later because he desperately wanted to get on my bed.

Spike does not normally do this even when he has slept here; he never comes and squeaks by my bed, so I was very surprised.

Especially as he had been on Richie’s bed under the duvet, yet he got up and came and stood on his hind legs to squeak at face level.

When I said ‘go away he scuttled off back to Richie, who got up and got me a bag of thc which helped me get back to sleep.

Because of the snow it is very quiet here right now, plus it is getting close to Christmas and a lot of people have taken time off work.

The children played outside over the weekend when the snow was new, but today it was even colder and the snow was getting quite slippery so none was playing outside today.

Did notice that it was dark a minute or two later than yesterday, or maybe that is my wishful thinking.

Maybe it seemed to get dark later because there were no dark clouds came rolling in at 3.30, like they did yesterday.

It was dramatic yesterday how one minute it was bright and sunny until 3 pm, then the clouds rolled in and the sun went off as if by a light switch and it was dark.

Today looked very much like the day after the shortest day and we are going the right way, and soon spring will be here.

Now I have no more complaints about the dark nights now I see that we are moving towards longer days and spring.

Really looking forward to Christmas Eve and Christmas day.

Happy moments.