Merry Christmas, have a pineapple

So my Christmas was lovely :) I spent Christmas day with my Grandparents in Wales, who are the funniest people with regards to presents that I have ever met. My Gran is a big fan of just passing on anything she doesn't want/need/use on a regular basis, and so we not only came away with a pile of Christmas presents for each of us, but also:

1. A shredder that has been living behind a chair in the living room for a year or so due to fear of technology ("we don't like anything we're not used to")


2. 2 apples, 2 plums and 1 pineapple out of a fruit basket given to them the day before by a neighbour. The pineapple seemed a source of great distress as my Gran had no idea how to cut it open and so seemed quite afraid of it.


3. Half their Christmas decorations.

Sadly, however, we did not bring this happy little thing home as it is still hanging on their little white tree.

I believe it's a white lion, with a bright red mouth and spots drawn on with pen, dressed as santa, complete with beard. If you have seen a cooler (or more bizarre) Christmas decoration, I would like to see it.

The rest of my Christmas was spent watching a lot of TV whilst munching on a chocolate orange :)

Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat...

My Gramps used to sing that, not just at Christmas time but whenever he felt like it :)

I like geese :)

Anyway, although I haven't seen any geese, I know Christmas is coming up because me and Makaela spent the evening at the panto dress rehearsal tonight. It was extremely nice to be able to sit and munch upon chocolate whilst giving the occasional wise-sounding piece of advice rather than rushing around worrying about every possible thing that could go wrong. We also did some reminiscing and I am looking forward to a possible girly evening over Christmas where we can do lots of old-panto watching :D

Since I last wrote on here I have done rather a lot, including visiting Louise and Chloe and Rachel and also seeing Kat and Byatt back in Bristol which was loveeeellly. I had such good times on both weekends away :)
Now I am mainly working and getting into a Christmassy mood. We have a Christmas tree at work and people are discovering I can draw which is fun as I spent 10 minutes today doing a biro drawing of the chef who is fascinated by it :D Oh and on Tuesday I am literally getting paid to draw (or paint as it were) as when I went into school to collect my artwork and certificates Ms Dyer told me she'd pay me a little bit of money to film me doing a watercolour painting step-by-step and explaining it blue peter style! So as creepy and bizarre as that sounds I am a little pleased to be getting some more money.

I'm looking forward to seeing everyone at Christmas although the fact that I'm moving to Kenya for 6 months in January is kind of taking over a lot of Christmas thoughts! It's only a month to go now and I'm just getting hold of the rest of my stuff to take. I am ordering my flipflops over the internet because apparently English shops decided that if my toes freeze in normal shoes in December, flipflops are not the way to go.

A down side of getting ready is that I continually feel ill as I am getting weekly jabs that make you feel as if you have the flu. So that's not too great but if it stops me getting Hepatitus B in Kenya then that's fine by me :D