The last couple of weeks of November seemed to have whizzed past.
My oldest child turned 15
I know I am biased but she is just so pretty.
The Christmas lights in our nearest city got switched on, and what chaos that was. We got stuck in a mass crowd, and quite frankly, I feared of a stampede. J was on his Dads shoulders and was getting distressed as I was getting farther away from him. So he did the coolest of things which immediately cheered him up - he crowd surfed. It was the only way M could get him to me. Very funny. J did get to see Santa and after the big switch on we managed to get back to a smaller gathering, where there was fake snow - and great fun was had by all.
The two photos below are more or less the same, but the first one you can see a big fake snow flake falling down towards M's head...
Our next switch on was our little towns Christmas Parade last Thursday. Quite a few people turned out for the event, but I am not quite sure what happened to the children in the parade, and the promise of snowflakes and elves and Santa himself. We all stood on the side of the pavement looking down the High Street for the Parade to begin, I could hear singing, then all of a sudden we realised that the Parade was on the pavement, and I think we may of ended up in it as we couldn't get out of the way in time. Anyway, it kind of consisted of older people, as in older than me, dressed in Chirstmassy clothes, playing instruments and dancing. Also there was a man with just a scary wolf mask, what was that all about.
Anyway, onto the switch on of the big tree in the square, and after three attempts the lights came on.
Then Santa appeared, giving out very hard boiled sweets to all the children.
Onto the late night shopping, which although only a few shops were open, it was very festive, with most shops offering sweets, and my nearest Charity shop servicing non alcoholic mulled wine, which was really nice and even the carpet shop were giving away cakes.
Yesterday it was the Mulled Wine and Mince Pie evening at the Rugby Club, and it looked really festive and cosy. I didn't have any of the mulled wine as I already had one glass and we had to be up early for the Coach trip to Twickenham. J did have several Brownie bites, smothered in Clotted Cream, and the spoon in the clotted cream only had to get changed once after he spooned a big dollop into his mouth!
Twickenham Barbarians v Fiji
Not to early a start, had to be at the Club for 8.15am. It was a fun journey up, and managed to keep J occupied, despite leaving his DS in the car!
Had great seats with a brilliant view as we bought our tickets earlier on in the year
Journey home was fun, lots of singing, drinking and with a lot of teenage boys on the bus, farting too!
And that concludes November x
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