Lockdown Diary - Sunday 3rd January 2021
Although it's not yet twelfth night, today is the day I'll be taking down the decorations, lights and trees. Twelfth night is in the week and both I and son #2 will be working again by then, so we'll not have the time - certainly not during daylight hours. I am hoping that I will have help from my sons, especially with the trees as getting them outside without making a mess requires two people. Same old, same old as far as Sunday goes. I've started taking down the decorations slowly, mainly as I'm the only one up, so far. My first task is to remove the chocolates from the tree: once these wouldn't have lasted until now, but as the boys have grown older they are not that interested, though they will help eat them once removed. I think only son #3 and I have eaten any of the chocolates whilst still on the tree. Guilty! I wait patiently for the emergence of others, but the impatient part of me just wants to get it done and out of the way. Son #3 rises first: he...