A very traditional Christmas

We had Christmas eve at seashekls restaurant at hythe and then came bacj to yvinnes andacaught up with the soaps before bed. Then a lay in  until mid morning and up start helping with operation Christmas dinner which Graham leads. I started the blog early enough but a couple of hours have slipped by and the table has been laid, the capon is cooking, the roast spuds papart boiled, the gammon sliced and the other vegetables when cooked will go in special warmers warmers whiwhich can be rushed up direct at the table. I've got my special flashing Christmas tie on and around two pm peolle may start arriving. Margaret myself and yvonne will go down to the cemetery about two pm and put a posie on pats memorial stone. It won't be that stressful there are seven of us for dinner but tomorrow it's a buffet with still hit of around fourteen family. Presnts are opened in the afternoon
We head home on thursday and clear the dvd orders before new year celebration get under way, I did get enough film yesterday for a dvd on soutsouthampton dock traffic perhaps I'll sandwich something else in at the end of the week.  We will start working our way through the annual filming round next week with some of the major bus centres early on including Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham. I'll try and get some more bus spot ultra programmes completed over the winter. I'll also start booking the first of my film trips overseas starting with Asia in march visiting Hong Kong then taiway and on the the Philipines a and finishing off in Brunei returning via kl in Malaysia. Our best wishes to all of you who celebrate this time of year.