Deep and crisp.............

Sleep overs

As it is the school holiday the children like to come and sleep over. Frankie needed a hair cut so Granddad got the scissors out. Frank said "you do know granddad that hairdressers are fully trained" Emilie tried to teach Malcolm cats craddle games. Liliane said she was now old enough to sleep too so we couldnt refuse but she was as good as gold and no trouble at all.

Boxing day

We had Christmas dinner with Amelia and Martin where Ben enjoyed his first one. Luckily the table and chairs had arrived on Christmas eve. Boxing Day was back to Abagail's for roast beef and tree presents.

Christmas Morning

This year we spent the morning at Clemency and the afternoon at Klienbettingham.

Christmas eve

Frankie wanted to have our traditional Christmas Eve dinner of ham egg chips and peas on the 21st as he said he was already for Christmas.  We explained that it had to be on the 24th as Father Christmas couldn't come early. There was great excitement putting out the pie and carrot but poor Santa was left a glass of Coke. Christmas morning we had scrambled eggs and salmon or bacon for breakfast before opening the pressies.

Let it snow

The snow is falling all around and it sure is beautiful. Its about 18 inches deep so far with more on the way. Emilie and Frank have built an igloo in their garden.

Malcolm's Birthday

Grandsons

Poor Ben caught the chest infection that was going round so came to play while Amelia and Martin went to the Christmas Bazzar. Abigail brought Charlie over later it was his first visit to Grandma and Grandads house.

Elton John

Abigail & I had tickets to see Elton John we had been looking forward for weeks to a great night out. There was a snow storm in the afternoon and we worried that the roads would be blocked. Then we worried that Elton would be stuck in London as the airports were closed. We all made it to Le Coque and we had great seats 18 rows from the front. The best thing about concerts in Luxembourg is the small venues. Unfortunatly it was Eltons gloom and doom tour and we ended the evening feeling quite let down. I commented to Abigail during the gig that he would do Candle in the wind as an encore to cheer us up.............and that is what he did.