This seemed unlikely. None at all? Well yes; there is some. But not what we wanted for Christmas.
So The Builder went to Sainsbury's, where he had to queue to get into the car park! A quick smash and grab raid later he had acquired a bit of wine and went home. So there will be some wine for Christmas but not, perhaps, quite enough.
In the meantime I decided to go out at lunchtime and see if any of the supermarkets in town had any. It was raining :-S There is a little, milk bar style Sainsbury's across the road from SHU so I decided to head into town via that - but expecting it to be very busy and bereft of wine. I look through the window as I approached. It seemed fairly quiet. I went in. And found three members of staff, two customers and lots of wine. I assume everyone was in the large Sainsbury's on the Moor or in Waitrose or somewhere. And, of course, there are very few students around, and the store is mostly used by students as far as I can tell.
So I acquired some more wine and headed back to work for the couple of hours until we closed for the Christmas break.
And thus we went from possibly having NO wine for Christmas to having a bit to having lots. We are steadily drinking our way through it!!
And suddenly it was Christmas Day. Much to the amusement of my Aussie friends and relations, I was quite excited by the temperature outside. Now I am aware that 14d on Christmas Day isn't very exciting when the temperature where you are has been in the 30s. But that 14d was about 20d warmer than it had been last year!! It was a beautiful day. The sun shone and the sky was blue and everything. Not a flake of snow. Might almost have been an Easter Feast we were celebrating. If you were thinking about the weather, that is.
It was Cally's first Christmas celebration. I think she was a bit puzzled by it all but decided to indulge all the adults in their weird behaviour. She was a bit surprised to come down from her midday nap to find that The Builder, Freyja and I had turned up. Marryk was already there. She was a tad surprised to find that there were loads and loads and LOADs of presents - nearly all for her. She was quite surprised to find that there was a veritable feast in her kitchen - but was definitely prepared to indulge in feasting. And then it was definitely time for another nap. Alas - the festivities had worn her out to the extent that she napped right through to her bedtime - and didn't go back to sleep for hours and hours and hours. In the meantime, Freyja and Marryk had gone back to their various residences (Freyja didn't go back to London - she's staying at Simon's place in Nether Green for the holidays). The Builder and I repaired to the Spare Room. Tabitha took herself off to bed. Leaving poor Gareth to entertain Cally into the wee smalls.
Cally and Gareth were still asleep when Then Builder and I left to return to Tupton on Boxing Day morning, so missed out on talking to Stella and Tony on Skype. But Tabitha, The Builder and I talked to them.
It was a good day. We ate lots and drank lots and laughed lots. Thank you to Tabitha and Gareth and Cally for letting us have Christmas at their place .
We had Boxing Day quietly at home on our own. We pretty much had a Sunday - Sunday got more or less swallowed up by Christmas Day. We watched telly, installed the DVD player that Tabitha, Austin and Freyja had given us for Christmas and for the first time watched a DVD on the widescreen telly that we've only had for two years, ate roast beef and Yorkshire puddings and pottered about. And now I need to get moving and get organised for we are off to Salisbury for a couple of days later this morning and I am not ready!
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