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livI had such a delightful and relaxing gap between the last working day of 2018, which for me was the Friday before Christmas, until yesterday.
A proper three day weekend, and much less pressured than a typical bank holiday, since immediately after the weekend came Christmas rather than returning to work. I led the Friday night service, which is the first time I've done that in Cambridge, for the half dozen people around that weekend, and we had a lovely sharing meal after. And a lie-in on Saturday when about the most strenuous thing we did was wrapping presents. Low-key date withcjwatson including playing some Dominion with Benedict. We did brave the big supermarket for last minute Christmas dinner shopping on Sunday, but spent the rest of both Sunday and Christmas eve unwinding.
Christmas Day was just how I like it:jack and I cooked a meal (leek, mushroom and fig pie which I kind of made up) and opened presents and drank nice booze (we finally opened something from our wedding stash rather than pointlessly saving it for an even more special occasion) and paid attention to eachother. And then in the evening we joined our OSOs for the tail end of their Christmas dinner. Partners like to cook and entertain on a much grander scale than we do, so it works out pretty well to join them in the evening to eat cheese and leftovers and exchange more presents.
And Boxing day we followed my favourite tradition of opening the Boxes of new games we had acquired.cjwatson came over for games and my parents for tea. I opened my birthday presents a little early in the evening, because the actual day of my birthday we were travelling.
Months ago I'd planned to spend my 40th birthday in Nice, and the trip was absolutely everything I hoped for. I got a whole week with the whole polycule under one roof, and we did tourism and sitting on the beach and climbing mountains and being in France and eating food, including king cake, and looking across the Med to Corsica like Katy in the Coolidge book. A couple of things happened that I didn't hope for, likejack having a minor accident (he's fine), and getting into a few spats because we aren't perfectly adept at sharing a smallish space, but basically it was perfect. May manage a travelogue, but I mainly want to say that I planned the most ideal holiday and it actually happened, because my people are extremely good to me.
We got home not too late on Friday, and had another fairly chilled weekend before going back to work. Sunday was a really nice treat for the last day of the holiday:cjwatson and I met up with khalinche to see the Anglo-Saxon exhibition at the British Library. The exhibition is just breathtakingly amazing, so many treasures and really well curated, besides lots of fun trying to pick out bits of Old English by looking at manuscripts with Latin alongside. Plus it was such a treat to actually be in the same place as khalinche.
A proper three day weekend, and much less pressured than a typical bank holiday, since immediately after the weekend came Christmas rather than returning to work. I led the Friday night service, which is the first time I've done that in Cambridge, for the half dozen people around that weekend, and we had a lovely sharing meal after. And a lie-in on Saturday when about the most strenuous thing we did was wrapping presents. Low-key date with
cjwatson including playing some Dominion with Benedict. We did brave the big supermarket for last minute Christmas dinner shopping on Sunday, but spent the rest of both Sunday and Christmas eve unwinding. Christmas Day was just how I like it:
jack and I cooked a meal (leek, mushroom and fig pie which I kind of made up) and opened presents and drank nice booze (we finally opened something from our wedding stash rather than pointlessly saving it for an even more special occasion) and paid attention to eachother. And then in the evening we joined our OSOs for the tail end of their Christmas dinner. Partners like to cook and entertain on a much grander scale than we do, so it works out pretty well to join them in the evening to eat cheese and leftovers and exchange more presents. And Boxing day we followed my favourite tradition of opening the Boxes of new games we had acquired.
cjwatson came over for games and my parents for tea. I opened my birthday presents a little early in the evening, because the actual day of my birthday we were travelling.Months ago I'd planned to spend my 40th birthday in Nice, and the trip was absolutely everything I hoped for. I got a whole week with the whole polycule under one roof, and we did tourism and sitting on the beach and climbing mountains and being in France and eating food, including king cake, and looking across the Med to Corsica like Katy in the Coolidge book. A couple of things happened that I didn't hope for, like
jack having a minor accident (he's fine), and getting into a few spats because we aren't perfectly adept at sharing a smallish space, but basically it was perfect. May manage a travelogue, but I mainly want to say that I planned the most ideal holiday and it actually happened, because my people are extremely good to me. We got home not too late on Friday, and had another fairly chilled weekend before going back to work. Sunday was a really nice treat for the last day of the holiday:
cjwatson and I met up with khalinche to see the Anglo-Saxon exhibition at the British Library. The exhibition is just breathtakingly amazing, so many treasures and really well curated, besides lots of fun trying to pick out bits of Old English by looking at manuscripts with Latin alongside. Plus it was such a treat to actually be in the same place as khalinche.