Boxing day- For those of you that read my blog regularly, you may be familiar with the CJ tradition that Boxing day is spent with family. And yesterday was no exception. Seeing as my mum has moved it meant that the journey was longer- which also led to the decision to stay overnight (and then we could have a drink) We left at 9 and get there at about midday. We started of at my sisters for drinkies (a theme which continued through the evening) and headed off to mums for dinner. As like last year each family group had a course to prepare and this year we did the starters (When I say we I must admit I was more of a hindrance than a help) The dinner was prawn/salmon starter, followed by roast lamb dinner and then by a chocolate trifle- bizarrely this was exactly what we had on Christmas day. Spooky! The entertainment comprised mostly of the board-game Articulate- which my team won thanks to a rather fortunately drawn peacock- followed by more Karaoke, in which the kids enjoyed murdering Jingle Bell Rock and for some reason when YMCA came on, the mic got passed my way!!! The kids continued to entertain with a piece of improvised drama which totally re-wrote the Nativity when the virgin Mary Ann gave birth to the King of the Munchkins as foretold by an oddly Welsh Angel Gabriel!

After a less than comfortable night on a put up bed- we left the family and headed home, making a detour via the sales at Lakeside. Man they were busy- especially NEXT, which had a queue that snaked for ever around the store.
When we got back I decided to look up last years Christmas write up... and here is something that I wrote....

We went sales shopping yesterday, but we weren't that impressed with the sales. NExt was packed though. The queue snaked all around the store- it kind of puts me off buying anything

Some things never change