You may or may not be interested to know that the Santa toilet seat I talked about in a previous post does not play music - much to my great relief! Here is a picture of it:
Have you ever seen anything like it? Mum got it from the Keeneze catalogue - I'd be interested to know how many of these toilet seats they actually sold. I can only imagine my mother buying one! It feels a bit like someone's watching you there I feel a bit uncomfortable with that!
so far we've only opened a couple of presents each and I seem to be taking after my mum coz I left the price on my dad's present - doh!
Anyway, since my last blog post, as always for everyone at Christmas, I've been really busy and all over the place. A couple of weeks ago I went to Copenhagen with my parents, Richard and Heidie and my auntie Anne. We stayed in a new youth hostel (which was a contradiction in terms with the old fogies!) - all 6 of us in one room!! Now as ridiculous as this may seem, it was actually ok. The youth hostel was really lovely (and cheap which is unique in Copenhagen!) and the room, despite having 6 of us in it was spacious enough. We did a lot of shopping (woohoo!), we went to "The Tivoli" as mum calls it which is the botanic gardens/amusement park and at Christmas time they also put in loads of christmas stalls as well. It's really beautiful at night with all the christmas lights.
We saw the statue for Hans Christian Andersen the famous storywriter who wrote The Little Mermaid - a statue of which we also saw:
They've also made a modern-day statue of The Little Mermaid which is really ugly and scarey - I did not like it!
It gives me the creeps yeah?
Anyway, we also went to Malmo in Sweden for the day. Mum wanted to go into some of the "attractions" such as the Guiness Book of Records Museum and the Ripley's Believe it or Not museum. I'd already done the Ripley's one in Blackpool so Richard went in with the oldies whilst Heidie and I did some shopping. Anyway, I'd prewarned Richard that there was a bit in the museum about gurning:
It encourages people to look in a mirror and have a go at gurning for themselves - unbeknown to them, the mirror is two-way so people who have gone on before can watch you gurning away from the other side of the mirror and making a complete fool of yourself! Apparently, mum and Auntie Anne (just as I thought) fell for it hook, line and sinker - I only wish I'de been at the other side of the mirror!
Since being back, there's been the usual christmas celebrations. Every year at work I've organised a little christmas party to do with the nativity story. The first year it was an Angel Party, then a wise men party and this year we had The Nativity Party. Everyone had a special part to play and dressed up. We had a little carol service with a little quiz and a thought and then we ate some speciality food from the mangerscene - such as manger cakes, straw (chipsticks), sheep droppings (chocolate raisins) and donkey doo (chocolate truffles). We had some lovely Angel punch to wash it all down.
Bless everyone at my work for joining in! I love them lots for the way they humour me and go along with my hairbrained ideas. I'll really miss them when I've gone.
So, I've also finally been ice-skating. Didn't get round to doing it in Winchester, didn't get round to doing in in Copenhagen. Finally got round to do it in Southampton - which was fairly disappointing because the ice rink was probably no bigger than half a gym hall so it was a bit crowded. However, there were some spectacular falling over from Liz (which I missed - bummer!), Helen and Matt. We then went back to Suz (top host) for a fantastic feast. I had everything nicely set up for the guests to get a really christmasy welcome. I pretended that we would surprise Suz with our carol singing when she answered the door. So I got them all to sing "I'm dreaming of a White Christmas" and when Suz answered, we'd set the snow machine up to send snow out of the bedroom window and fall on them! Aw it was lovely!!!
So that's it just about. I'm now down at mum and dad's with Richard. Heidie's in Denmark with her parents but will join us on Thursday. Dad's off visiting some of The Salvation Army centres in the division. Mum's making the lunch and ironing Richard's pants and socks (WHAT????) Richard's playing with my new ipod nano coz he can't play with his new ipod until he buys his laptop (which i reckon he'll do tomorrow coz he can't wait!) and I've managed to sneak onto someone else's wireless network (thanks mate whoever you are!) so I can finally update my blog which I've strangely very much missed doing. Just another normal christmas day in the Bradbury household which is the fact that there's nothing normal about it! Every year it's different in some way so you don't get bogged down with traditions. It's really chilled out and just lovely. Thanks God for an ace family who I love so very much.
Whatever you're doing this christmas I hope it's not too stressful and that you just take time to relax and enjoy the company of the people you're with. Don't get bogged down with the tradition unless it brings joy! I really pray that you really enjoy the gift of hope that God gave in Jesus. Remember that this gift was the gift of a Wonderful Counsellor, a mighty God, an everlasting father and prince of peace which brings hope and all you need for all you face.
take good care
laters
cx
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