MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

Merry Christmas Everyone! The advent calendar only went up to Christmas Eve so don't get too excited!

A soul cake, a soul cake...

I started the day alone, but I put on Sting's Winter Songbook, the 2009 live concert from Durham Cathedral, to ease me intro the day. I had a simple breakfast and opened the present that mum and dad had sent me from home.

It contained a new card for the collection, a little lamp in a winter snowscape. It felt a little metaphorical, like I was that little lamb, lost out in the big wide world so far from home.

It'll be lonely this Christmas...

The present itself was a collection of sheet music from The Beatles and themes from the recent James Bond films. Something to work in in the coming year. Mum and dad, I can't thank you enough. I love you loads and you're the best family a guy could ask for.

When the sky falls...

But I had some consolation on my first Christmas away from home, because my Christmas Dinner was in a fancy hotel, the Pullman (somewhere I haven't been before, but it's one of a number of fairly upmarket hotels in the city). There, I enjoyed the Christmas buffet with some great friends and colleagues.

Christmas Dinner

There was a carvery, lobster, cheese board, dessert, unlimited wine and champagne for about £45!

 

So once again, Merry Christmas!