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Monday, 24th December 2007

Santa Claus is coming to town

Christmas Eve, zero nine hundred hours and the final box is opened.  Well howdy doody, it’s only Father Christmas.

So the scene is complete.

The management of the Bathtime Blog hope that you’ve enjoyed our Christmas Advent Calendar.  Just a minute, shouldn’t the advent calendar include a baby? Oh, what’s his name?

So we’re now all ready for Christmas Day.  Kerry and Heidi have even had their nails done for the occasion.  Needless to say, my nails are in perfect condition.  May we take this opportunity to wish you a very happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year.

Chris

Posted by Daddy @ 3:06 PM  

Thursday, 20th December 2007

Ice Sculpture Trail

On Sunday, Norwich hosted an ice sculpture display at various places of interest around the city.  Despite the extreme cold, it was a beautiful clear day and Isaac and I thoroughly enjoyed seeking out the 10 sculptures.  Maybe next time the organisers will be sensible enough to organise the event in July when it will be much warmer.  Unfortunately Heidi woke up with a terrible headache and was therefore unable to join us.   

These angels either side of the St Andrew’s cross were outside St Andrews Church 

An enormous lobster on Lobster Lane

A fearsome dragon outside Dragon Hall

A beautiful swan on swan lane

The judge outside the Guild Hall

A Victorian Gentleman on Hay Hill

and finally a lion on White Lion Street.  We didn’t see the last 2 sculptures because, like the sculptures, we were both starting to feel a little frozen.  So we made our way home to see mummy and to enjoy the warmth of our Christmas decorations.

We told Heidi all about our adventures but to my embarrassment it was only when I was describing to Heidi where the sculptures were located that I realised the connection between the display and the location.  A swan on Swan Lane, a lobster on Lobster Lane?  Doh! 

Posted by Daddy @ 10:23 PM  

Saturday, 15th December 2007

Beware the Ides of … December?

Dear Caesar, tis nothing to fear my friend …

… just a handful of Christmas presents to place under the tree.

Ah yes Brutus, tis easy for you to say but did not one warn us to beware of gifts from strangers?

Tis true, tis true.

Enough nonsense.  Here are a couple of pictures to show how the building project is progressing.  I know you’re eager to see.  Yes you are!  Yes you are!  Well tough, here they are.

The scaffolding is up and Peter and David are building up the blocks of our new bedroom.

and from the rear.  They did say that the roof would be on by Christmas.  Me thinks different.

Keep watching friends, it will soon be Christmas.

 

Posted by Isaac @ 4:32 PM  

Monday, 10th December 2007

The 7th Day of Advent

Day 7 and the stage is rapidly building up.  To my dismay Daddy told me that as a week had gone by it was about time that I got the duster out to give it a good clean.

So here I am dusting away on the stairs.  What a task master my Dad is. Does anybody have the number for Social Services?

Daddy said that we had to clean up because we had friends coming to dinner on Sunday.  So together we spent the day Spring cleaning and even put up all of the Christmas decorations.  Daddy also laid the table with Christmas crackers to boot.  In the meantime mummy went shopping to buy the beef.  Everything was ready for a good old bash with our friends.

Unfortunately, we hadn’t anticipated the power cut at 2.30 in the morning.  Electricity wasn’t restored until teatime and so we had to take all of the food to Linda and Ralf’s house and cook the meal there.  We still had a lovely time and at least we didn’t have to do any washing up. 

 

 

Posted by Isaac @ 8:58 PM  

Saturday, 1st December 2007

The first day of Advent

As you know today is the first day of advent and to help me mark off the days leading up to Christmas mummy bought me a playmobil advent calendar.

The idea is that each day I have to find the box marked 1, 2, 3 and so on right up to Christmas Day.  Each box contains a surprise.  Sadly, so I’m led to believe, non of the boxes contain any chocolate.  Today I opened box 1 which had a tiny little table in it.  I had to place the table on the miniature scene at the bottom.  Tomorrow I’ll get to open the second box.  Can’t wait.  I’ll keep you informed every few days so you can see how the scene is building up.

Speaking of which, it’s about time I kept you up to date with our building work.  Here are a few more pictures of the project.

Unfortunately, having got this far and ready to start laying blocks, the friendly building inspector, bless him, politely instructed us to lay new pipes which meant having to partly dig up what we’d already done.  David wasn’t best pleased.

Still, after that little set back we layed the concrete floor and moved the blocks in en masse.  I say ‘we’ but to be honest I haven’t contributed all that much yet.

The next thing I knew World War III had broken out between us and the neighbours and trench warfare was called for.  In actual fact it turned out that Charlie had to dig up the garden to lay new water pipes.  I don’t think that there’s going to be much left of my garden by the time they’ve finished.

It’s starting to take shape now though and I can just about visualise how it’s going to look. 

Indeed, to quote the title of that great Yazz and the Plastic Population hit, ‘The Only Way Is Up’.

Posted by Isaac @ 5:55 PM