What? Another blog post about Christmas?

"What???  ANother blog post???"

Hello yet again...

I know, I am on a roll aren't I?

Very quick one this time...

So last week I did the inevitable and always rushed big Christmas delivery to get around everywhere, but not everything went according to plan.

First of all I had to hire a car again, which doesn't half irritate me as I would much rather have a car of my own so I can do everything a little more relaxed.  I could to one or two places in the first week of December, then one or two others in the second, and so on...

Hiring a car though means that everything has to be done in as little time as possible.

Day one then I thought that I would just go and visit my dad and his wife for a couple of hours, which is 36 miles each way apparently.  This was because Louise was working until the early afternoon, and I thought it would be nice to fit in a visit to her mum and dads as she hadn't seem them since the beginning of October.  We can't get to places very often - money and transport!

Day two was the day to do everything else if possible - it wasn't!!

Christmas Delivery Service - day two.

I started out late because, to be honest, I realised that I had missed a present for someone.  So I had to go and pick out something, then wrap it, bag everything up according to where they were going, and then make my way to Mansfield.

I started at my mum's, where I spent a lovely couple of hours, including a nice snack to keep me going (at about midday).

From there I went to my brother Richard's house.  I assumed that he would want to come with me to my aunty Ann's.  I was wrong, so another hour and a half or so there.  From there to aunty Ann's where my aunty Lynn was visiting (I knew that already - I planned that one), where I spent I think a little over an hour, and finally my brother Mark and his family's where no one knew where the Christmas card to bring home was, so I waited for Mark's wife to come home from an office party.  And waited.  Roadworks on the way back on the bus route stalled it, which was also the route I would have to take to my friends place.  I decided to post their cards just in time to reach there before Christmas, and let them know I will try to get there during early January.  Oh well, another day with a hired car.  I miss driving.

That is the Christmas Delivery service in a nutshell.  I know I missed people and places, but it's not easy to get everywhere.  Uncle Clive's present is in the post, and I hope that he likes it.  Salisbury is just too far to fit in that schedule.  I'm sorry :-(

Take care and have a wonderful Christmas.

Phew, three blog posts in less than a day!

December 23rd 2013 (43 years and 27 days old).