


A Classic Christmas!
Christmas 2024 was more or less the same as every other year. I had my kids for the day, I had help with ‘the list’ but this year I had my first ever works do.
I was away ‘working’ and didn’t land back into the UK until the morning of the 22nd but as I wandered through immigration and waited hopefully for my luggage I was quietly confident that everything was organised for the big day.
I’d received a wish list from Lucy with instructions from her mum to refrain from meandering from what was on it and this was the only part of Christmas that I failed with. Having read the list I decided on a few items, added a few of my own and immediately passed that list onto my little sister Jane. As a big brother I am blessed to have a sibling like Sis. She loves Christmas, she loves buying presents and she loves that I pay her whatever she says it added up to.
It may seem like I do nothing for the big day but arranging the logistics is not easy. Everything is ordered online and sent to various addresses for wrapping and this is where my hard work started. Jane wraps the gifts I have for Mum, Lyn and my kids while Mum will wrap what I have bought for Jane while Lyn is left to wrap the last minute things purchased for Mum, Sis and the kids – oh and a hot water bottle I bought for her. See, one will always slip through the net.
Home, I gazed upon the pile of perfectly wrapped gifts with pride at a job well done!
A bonus addition to my Christmas celebrations was my first work’s do. If you have read any of my blogs you’ll already be aware that I have no right to call them mine. Lyn has been behind me – beside me, since I started and this year we wrote 33 of these blogs. (My aim is 52 in 2025 – it’s written down now so now I have to compete that target.) (Wait, now it’s on the word wide web so I couldn’t possibly let down the fan(s)!) (How many brackets is too many?)
Lyn proofed the blog, she edited where necessary and offered encouragement always. In my head this makes her staff and staff get a do so off to London we headed and after a slap up meal at Itsu (Lyn’s favourite) we enjoyed a Macchiato at Bar Italia (my favourite) and finally A Christmas Carol (ish) starring Nick Mohammed (my son’s favourite, ooops!)
My experience with work dos is zero so I had nothing to measure this one against but I loved it and now, as I type, I love it even more because it was a work’s do. Work. That means I can use it as a tax write off.
Merry Christmas.
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my only experience of works dos was performing at them to loads of drunks. 😂