Legally Blonde

And Happy Christmas too, of course.

Richard has news from India. There is also a tiny paragraph inside the front cover of the Sunday Times.

In other news, we just came back from the family service at my parents’ church, where B was made very welcome and given an important job – placing a wooden animal in the crib. Unfortunately when asked what animal it was, he said in a high clear voice “Goat” – which, to be fair, it did resemble more than the donkey it was supposed to represent!

Happy Christmas Eve.

Away in England with parents for a week. May not spend as long as usual here! Happy,peace-filled Christmas to you all. Normal service will resume soon xx

Denominations join to present the Nativity… Kim has done it again

to Em and Rhys for their stonking pre Christmas sing and drink party on Saturday.

B surprised us by staying up late without melt-down, in fact nearly stealing the show at one point as Rhys had shown him the keyboard and said he didn’t mind him pressing buttons. We were singing “See amid the winter snow” and in the second chorus B pressed some random rhythm buttons and we had to try to finish the carol over a soft rock sort of beat without corpsing – I failed, and sat in tears of laughter unable to sing on. B danced away clapping and flirting.

I was nervous of the first big singing get-together without Michael. It was sad, but not as difficult as I expected.

Edit: Jen has flickr’d some great pics…

Oops they are very squished, can someone techy advise??! thanks lots …

…by saying how well Michael’s memorial fund was doing online, I managed to stop anyone else from donating in the last 24 hours

If you’re crying while you’re lying down, your tears run into your ears, and itch.

Benjamin is *this close* to being advertised on ebay. No, cancel that. Freecycle. (I know I love him to bits but sometimes he really does drive me to distraction. ) I am very, very lucky to be blessed with such good friends – I was reassured this is perfickly normal behaviour (and parent’s reaction!) and bathtime was turned into a game rather than a screaming match. Oh the relief.

I’ve put some more B pics on flickr but the page is being weird and slow so not linking it atm.

Christmas is jolly nearly wrapped. Most cards sent by deadline (I’m so disillusioned with work these days I can be quite brazen about doing other stuff on the desk, so spent this afternoon writing them). So much looking forward to seeing family at the end of the week – roll on thursday night

Housegroup end of term party here tomorrow night – should be good, but need to do a mammoth amount of cleaning first! good thing I’m not in work on wednesdays…

I know it’s not about presents, but if you were maybe to think about sending something, out of interest, what would it be??! thank you …. !

Xmas Stocking

leave a gift for alice c your username: your gift: (30 characters or less) get your stocking </td Written by alice in: Uncategorized | Dec 18 2006 1 Amazing response The Michael Blakey Memorial Fund has racked up nearly a grand in just a week since going online at Just Giving. This is in addition to several donations direct to Tong-Len UK, through the Lancashire funeral directors, and raised by retiring collections at carol services and concerts in Edinburgh and King’s Lynn. I am overwhelmed, but not surprised. I have a lump in my throat realising more and more about the man I thought I knew well. So many sides to a very private man. So many lives are touched by his death. One man wrote to Michael’s mother who didn’t know him but whose father had been vicar at St John in the Wilderness, McLeod Ganj, in the Fifties. He felt a connection just from having read about him. I know £853.92 isn’t quite a twentieth of the target amount (to buy the land and start the hostel) but I still think it’s an amazing achievement in just the first week. Written by alice in: Uncategorized | Older Posts » Pages: About Categories: Benjamin Computerness Faith Church Family baby Fun stuff house Teepee Uncategorized Archives: March 2010 December 2009 July 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 January 2009 December 2008 October 2008 September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 April 2008 March 2008 February 2008 January 2008 October 2007 September 2007 August 2007 July 2007 April 2007 March 2007 February 2007 January 2007 December 2006 November 2006 October 2006 August 2006 July 2006 June 2006 May 2006 April 2006 March 2006 February 2006 January 2006 December 2005 November 2005 October 2005 September 2005 February 2005 January 2005 December 2004 November 2004 October 2004 September 2004 August 2004 July 2004 June 2004 May 2004 April 2004 March 2004 February 2004 January 2004 December 2003 November 2003 October 2003 September 2003 August 2003 July 2003 June 2003 Meta: Register Log in RSS Comments RSS Valid XHTML XFN WP Blogroll WordPress.com WordPress.org Powered by WordPress | Aeros Theme | TheBuckmaker.com WordPress Themes