Steaming

Jon's sister Claire, Jon and I took our little nephew Archie (3) to see Father Christmas on the steam railway at Bitton last week. Although it's a close run thing as to who was most excited about it, Archie or his aunties!


Father Christmas played a blinder by giving Archie his most favourite thing in the world, no, not the biscuit the size of his head, but a set of cars. More photos over in the photo album on the right.

We handed Archie back to his Dad stuffed with biscuits and over-stimulated to the point of hysteria - well, what are aunties and uncles for anyway? We're hoping that Archie might take us on the train next year too, erm, I mean we might take him...

We had our usual nice quiet Christmas Day, just the two of us and a chicken, and were joined on Boxing Day by the outlaws and Claire. After a quick walk round the stones at Avebury we tucked into the left-overs, the ham and Claire's lovely chestnut stuffing and Marianne's great bubble and squeak.

The outlaws are now cruising round the Caribbean despite the best efforts of BA to stop them. Bet it's not pissing-down there...