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So that was Christmas then

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Posted by: knightrider45 Sunday 30th December 2007, 8:11am

Over for another year. Did you have a good time? Did you feel Christmassy? Really?

I must admit I feel very seasonal at all, probably because I was working I guess. I started my nightshifts at 7pm Christmas Eve, and am still on nights now, which finish 7am New Years Day.

It was brilliant driving home at at 7.15 Christmas morning. Firstly, because there were no pensioners on the road (more about that later) so I got home in 22 minutes - and secondly, because everywhere I past on the way was in darkness, apart from the occasional house, which had all it's lights on, upstairs and downstairs. You could guess which houses had young kids in, couldn't you? Beautiful!

The Family were asleep when I got home, with exception to my manager, so I took great delight in getting the kids up! Payback time for earlier years!!

The first hour of Christmas Day was brilliant, as usual. The Teenage One had the biggest suprise because we'd been telling her for ages that we couldn't get her a Wii - but we did - admittedly, really early, I think about September, so she wasn't expecting it, Bonus!!

Christmas celebrations were temporaily halted for me at about 9.30 when I had to go to bed. The Son got his revenge back on me - he got me up at 1.00, an hour earlier than planned because I'd woken him up an hour earlier than he wanted to be up for when I got in.

Well, it's Christmas, isn't it!!

I had Christmas dinner (you call it lunch in Norfolk) with the family, including the mother in law,a couple of hours or so after I got up, then Christmas was ended for me as I had to get ready for work.

Must admit I struggled through Christmas Night's shift through the lack of sleep! But, now, it was worth it. I just wish I could bottle the familyness for ever, for Christmas is the one day a year where our family gather together. Sadly, the Eldest Daughter wasn't there - for the first time ever. She had Christmas in her own house with her boyfriend - but we had a little bit of Christmas early with her as we went to see her on the Sunday before Christmas.

Apologies, by the way, for anyone who didn't get Santa's presents in Kings Lynn in the area where I was working. My fault. I had to escort Santa out of the area because he wasn't complying with new European Legislation - he wasn't wearing a hi-viz vest, didn't have safety hat and glasses, and, although he told me he had safety shoes on, he didn't. They were soft leather with white fur around the top and I proved they weren't safety shoes to him by standing on his toes - hard! Well, he didn't give me the present I asked for - you know, that box of spare time I keep asking for which would let me pinch an hour or so extra every day I need more time. I've told him not to come back on my patch until he complies with the law, like the rest of us have to!

Catch you all tomorrow

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