Graeme and I took the 2 dogs for a walk to join in the parade, and then came home again. I stayed at home because of my unco-operative leg, and to bake Christmas mince pies for the following day. Graeme went back again to play his trumpet with 2 separate musical groups - one at 7.30pm and the other at 8.30 pm in the centre of town. Arthur was roped into working the shift that no one else wants - 3pm to 11pm on Christmas Eve :( Because we would have to leave home early the next morning for the 3 consecutive Christmas services, we decided to open our gifts round about midnight, when Arthur came home. Although we did not have the usual nice gifts for each other, we were blessed by unexpected gifts from friends - among them were 2 fruit cakes, frozen cuts of beef, home grown potatoes, gifts from our daughter (that she had posted to us in October), many post cards, Dutch stroopwafels, "smellies", etc.
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