Christmas Day

Well as promised day 1 of the blog for baby Pastorino who is refusing to come out yet.

Mummy and daddy celebrated without them in style, as you can see!

The day started with some present unwrapping...

....and some silly hats

the usual phone calls to friends and family....

Then onwards and upwards to the feast which I finally roped Paolo into helping with the sprouts and peeling chestnuts. He said this work wasn't worthy of him but never mind!!

We obviously had to crack a cracker (Paolo got his customary toolkit)

.....and open a bottle of bubbly.

But the real proof was in the carving. As usual Paolo did a splendid job. The cooking wasn't bad either even if I do say so myself!!

After all that, we both felt very full and sleepy so we vegged out on the sofa watching 'Happy Feet' and a variety of other cartoons. So in other words, the usual Christmas day. Hoping tomorrow will bring in an appearance from another friendly face, but not the guy who comes down the chimney!