Two Christmas Lunches

Christmas Eve sees us enjoying a family lunch in Timperley. Jacob's friend Seb joined us. The ten of us just about fitted around our dining table. As usual, baked potatoes, beans, cheese and Coronation chicken were the order of the day, followed by apple crumble, and some of Kate's 'Bacup Biscuit Box' for anyone who might still have been hungry..

Jessica and Isabella (cousins) seem to get on well together.

We hoped Isabella would take after her mum, who has an aversion to chocolate....

After lunch, whilst the grandmas had a snooze and the children played hide and seek, some of us enjoyed a game of Rummikub.

Back in Didsbury, monkey face seems to prefer yogurt to chocolate. Or maybe there was no chocolate available?

Christmas Day found us (after the Alderley Park parkrun) up in Bacup for Christmas dinner with Kate, Jacob and Jessica. That was Kate's Christmas present from me and Sue! We had a lovely time.

On Boxing Day I went for a walk. (See separate entry.) But the next day we had the pleasure of company again, and Sue read 'Seen and not Heard' to Isabella many times - she was fascinated by the story. It's over ten years since my cousin Richard's daughter had this book published, and it's great to see it still being enjoyed, as it was by Jacob and Jessica a few years ago..