I'm posting today with some random photos of our Christmas. After going to the midnight service on Christmas Eve the rest of our days over the holidays have been spent enjoying time with our family.
We had many lovely gifts given to us, one of them being a hamper of goodies.
Our granddaughter made a gingerbread house whilst our older daughter made a delicious Christmas cake and brought a limoncello panettone with her as well as other homemade food from her sons who couldn't join us because they were working over Christmas and are also working during the New Year, one being in the hospitality trade in London.
My husband took us out to one of our regular places that we like to go to especially at this time of the year. I've written about Castleton in Derbyshire many times before as it's a pretty village in the High Peaks and is always well decorated for the season. It's also a good place to go to buy gifts and after Christmas some of the small gift shops have sales so you can get some bargains - my kind of sale and much more pleasant than being in the crowded city.
We had lunch of tomato and basil soup and a baguette roll at one of the pubs. My husband had a spicy chicken baguette with salad and chipped potatoes. We were just about to take photos outside the pub when a passer-by kindly offered to take a photo of the three of us.
We went in St. Edmund's church which usually has a Christmas tree festival before Christmas in aid of charity and although the specially decorated trees by different organisations had been removed the church was still beautifully decorated. By the time we left it was getting dark and the Christmas trees outside each little shop along the main street had been turned on.
Tonight we shall be stopping in and there will be a glass of Prosecco and a slice of panettone to enjoy as we watch the count down to the New Year on the live television broadcast from the River Thames Embankment in London. We'll enjoy the firework display from the comfort of our armchair.
