Jersey Island

Well Christmas day was fun, especially with all the excitement of having a 2 1/2 year old in the family now.  Since my children have grown up we seemed to have more of a sedate time.  Thankfully that is all over and we, once again, have Christmas wrapping paper strewn across the floor with enthusiasm to see what that lovely man,  Father Christmas, has brought to the house for this little boy who has been bribed to be ever so good, just in case.  The carrot was left for Rudolph and the mince pie and a drink of milk (we had to do the right thing – there was no way we could allow him to get caught drunk in charge of a turbo-sleigh now could we) was left to thank Father Christmas.  So the scene is set for next year with a plan to send Santa a letter of thanks and a reminder that he will get another letter next year requesting some other goodies,  with a promise that we will all be good.

Santa did himself proud.  There was a selection of small toys all wrapped up in a Winnie the Pooh stocking.  This stocking seemed to have an endless leg and we eventually reached the toe!  It contained some neat little fridge magnets (Grandson is keeper of the fridge magnets – alphabet ones, number ones, sweet pussy cat ones, all sorts) but these magnets are a little different because they have clasps on them and when you push the clasp to hang a memo note or rubber gloves or whatever you wish to hang in them they give out a noise.

A fridge magnet that Baaaas!

A fridge magnet that ‘Baaas’,  the cow ‘Moos’ and the pig ‘Oinks’, now what better idea could we have to encourage a little lad to hang things up out of the way and be tidy.  Now will this ploy work.  We can only wait and see.

Snowman, Santa and Rudolph finger puppets

The Finger Puppets caused a little sensation but were soon put away upon unwrapping a completely new set of wax crayons, and the two little magnetic pigs that always seemed to kiss.  There are far too many little items to list completely and they were soon put aside when the really big parcels arrived.  Oh boy!  A Bob the Builder scooter which he could not wait to get a ride on.  No matter what the weather was like we all had to troop out into the cold so Corey could try that one out.  Corey always likes to play outside and he has to be convinced on a rainy day that it might be better to wait until it is a little less wet and to stay indoors..  The next parcel was just the thing for a rainy day -

The Red Knights Fort

The Red Knights Fort, complete with a set of Red and Blue Knights.   Alas no dragon yet – but he did make an appearance as an imaginary dragon.

The Fort sits in the centre of  a large mat which has pictures of a moat around it, a river passing by it,  a site for jousting tents and a few grassy knolls to sit or fight upon.  The first first imaginary game was an unexpected one though:  Corey decided that after their first ride around the Fort the Knights had developed a tummy ache so he duly went to the Hospital Tent to get some medicine for his Knights, whom had deposited under blankets in the turrets of the fort to recover.  Now I don’t know what these Knights had been up to but they may have enjoyed too much revelry on Christmas day – Who knows!  :).  Thankfully the Knights recovered fairly quickly and  went back to their normal knightly duties.

Maybe that is one lesson learned – too much knightly revelry may cause tummy aches!

I didn’t post on Boxing Day I had a well-earned rest – well our Government did not recognise yesterday as Boxing Day because it fell on a Saturday so they moved the goal posts so that the official Boxing Day falls on Monday.  I celebrated it yesterday like I always have done.  I suppose the decision to change it was because some workers would not be getting a day off because they are administrators in the Finance Industry here but that meant that retail workers had to turn out to work on what would normally have been a bank holiday for them.  You can’t please everyone all the time can you.  The shops too would probably do more business and make more money because of this change of Bank Holiday.  So the materialistic views of our Government are just too plain to see.  I wish we had an all full-filling accredited media because then we could look forward to truthful appraisals  on how business was doing, rather than a load of spin.  According to our Press everything seems to be rosy in the garden – no nasty bugs or greenfly here!  So hence the two Boxing Days.  I wonder how many people have decided to celebrate yesterday like I did?

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