Hello! Long time no see! I believe I haven't been on the internet for over a week. That's definitely a record for me. Why? Well, we're basically hobos at Christmas. We travel from relative to relative, use up all of their beds and eat all of their food. I haven't slept in my own bed since... the 23rd of December? Actually, I think the 22nd/21st... I miss it! At the moment, we're at the West Coast of Scotland, so we're at the opposite end of the country to where our house is. It's absaloutely bucketing it down at the moment, the patio bit is basically underwater and the sea is wild! We'll be doing the four hour car journey back tomorrow. Except it never takes us four hours. Whoever can get from here to there in that amount of time must drive like a maniac! It takes us six to nine hours.
Anyway, I'm just writing this post to wish everybody a very happy New Year and hope that you all had a merry Christmas! What did everybody get? Did you go anywhere? Did you do anything special for Hogmanay?
Ummm... I guess I'll tell you what we did;
(Everybody is asleep apart from my brother - who is ill and listening to boring Scotsmen commenate on a football match - and my Grannie - who is having a fag in the kitchen - so I'm incredibly bored. You don't have to read this if you don't want to!)
Well, on Christmas Eve, I woke up and thought that the house was on fire. That was exciting. The whole building stank of smoke. Then I could hear my Dad shouting, "What the hell do you think you're doing?! Put that out!". It turned out that the neighbour was burning a bonfire right outside our garden. There was rubbish flying off of it and our windows were covered in ash. Apart from that - and my sister throwing up all over the bedroom floor - nothing particularly interesting happened until we left to go to my Grandma's. I stayed up until 22:30 talking about school. Impressive? My aunty and uncle sounded awful when they were younger!
On Christmas morning, we woke up and opened presents! This took from 8:30 to around 12:00/13:00 - although there was alot of wandering in and out of the room and we stopped to have breakfast halfway through. My breakfast consisted of a pork pie, baconaise and chocolate. Very healthy. I did have a slice of toast too!
We lounged around the house for a while, before leaving for my Grannie's house for dinner. Yum, yum, yum! Why can't I think of any interesting incidents apart from the pidgeons in blankets and the vaccination against the plague in Glasgow? Hmmm... Something will come to me later on! I stayed up until midnight and then was off to bed. Miraculously I didn't have to sleep on a matress in the attic beside one of my uncles and actually got my own room.
Boxing Day came along all too soon. I showered, watched an episode of My Family And Other Animals (but was rather unimpressed by the animal shots) and played with the baby. We drove back to my Grandma's for Boxing Day salad which was amazing. One of my many uncles beat his profiteroles record by four this year. Last year he had twelve. This year, sixteen. Plus he had the massive plate of salad - there was a lot of "I'm sure I got some beetroot.. Oh no, it's under the peppers!" or "Where did my turkey go? I was eating it just a minute ago! Wait, I covered it under the salad!" - and huge chunk of sticky toffee pudding. He had to stay sitting for a long while. My Grandma and Grandad realised that they were accidentally drinking from the same glass.
For the next... three days we stayed at my Grandma's. We just lazed around. We found out that my Cousin's cheapy eBay dog on wheels was made sometime around the 1930's and was actually incredibly expensive. We went on a walk. We watched rubbish on the TV...
On Thursday everybody went home. In the car we could see massive grey clouds moving towards us, so my Dad suggested leaving to the West Coast that night because it looked like we were going to get a storm. We all agreed and hurried inside, trying to beat the weather. Unfortunately, almost as soon as we shut the door we got a massive blizzard! I was so excited! So I jumped in the shower and had half an hour to pack before we left the house again. Goodbye snow...
The next day, when we arrived at my Grannie's other house, we did nothing. Everybody arrived. We had lasagne. Nothing interesting.
Then came Hogmanay! Instead of the dancing to ceilidh music on the radio and hugging each other, we listened to a rubbish TV countdown programme and danced around and hugged each other. Then all of the men went to sort out the fireworks display. It was quite amazing! We all stood out on the balcony in big raincoats, hats and wellies. It was slippy, incredibly windy and icily cold. The fireworks were brilliant! Although it got quite scary when the wind picked up and there were big explosions right above our heads. I honestly thought that they were going to rain down on us and we were all going to get seriously hurt. The finale was the best though. All of the fireworks blew off towards us apart from one, that went off in the opposite direction. It landed in the sea but still exploded. It was very cool! I went off to bed at half one, but everybody else stayed up until six singing and dancing.
There was one incident when a box went on fire and blew across the garden (we left it and it put itself out), but apart from that, everybody survived and it was all good!
Now it's New Years Day. It's 12:45 and people are beginning to wake up. There are still only about five of us though.
And because I've been on here for so long, it's now sunny (or light enough to say it's bright).
I'm going to leave now...
Once again, I wish you a happy New Year and hope you had a very Merry Christmas! :)