Well here it is…Christmas Eve.  I have Nine Lessons and Carols on as I type, ‘Once in Royal David’s City’…

This won’t be a long post.  I haven’t time to write it really, and I’m sure you won’t have time to read!  I just wanted to share a few photos and thoughts before the big day. The snow has mostly gone now, but it has been beautiful…

Higgins has loved his walks, it might be cold but he’s not wading through mud…

I finished the last bit of pre-Christmas preparation a little while ago and iced the Christmas cake.  It was a little problematic as my eggs were bigger than Delia’s and my royal icing was rather sloppy, even after flinging in the last dregs of all the icing sugar in the house.  I spent quite a while scooping up what was running down the sides and returning it to the top until it started to set.  Not my finest acheivement, visually, but I don’t suppose it will affect the taste!

There something familiar about a small figure dressed in red surrounded by snow don’t you think?

It only remains to say,  have a very Merry Christmas all you lovely people out there in Blogland,  the ones who have faithfully left the comments which mean so much and to the other readers I haven’t met yet, maybe next  year?  It’s been such fun to meet you on line, and also in real life, lots of love from Higgins and me xxx

P.S. I have some photos borrowed from my sister which made me laugh so much I can’t resist passing them on to all for a Christmas giggle…

…and finally…

(no Higgins…I tried, he ate the hat!)